Adrian Forty
- Bio
Adrian Forty is an Emeritus Professor of Architectural History at The Bartlett, the Faculty of the Built Environment at University College London. He is also the former Programme Director of the master’s programme in Architectural History. Forty’s main interest is in architecture’s role in societies and cultural contexts. His research includes work on the design of consumer goods; on language and architecture; and on architecture, collective memory, and forgetting. As of lately, he is concerned with the history, aesthetics, and cultural significance of concrete as a construction material. In 2003, Forty was awarded the Sir Misha Black Award for Innovation in Design Education.
[last updated in 2021]
- 23/05/2022Call for Abstracts OASE #115. Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe
Call for Abstracts OASE #115 about “Interferences: Migrating Practices in Europe”, written by Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe and Bernard Colenbrander. Deadline is June 19, 2022. Read the full text of the OASE #115 Call for Abstracts in the PDF.
- 20/05/2022Now available: OASE 111. Staging the Museum
Museums stage public encounters between visitors, objects and stories. This is not limited to a tour through the exhibition spaces, it starts already with monumental or ‘tresholdless’ entrances.
- 01/04/2022Now available: sold-out OASE issues as e-book!
- To meet the demand for some populair sold-out editions of OASE, 5 issues have been scanned and re-released as e-books. It concerns OASE numbers 45, 54, 63, 65 and 78. These are for sale via nai010 Publishers for € 14,95 per issue.More sold-out issues will be released digitally in the near future, so keep an eye out for your favorite issue!
- 23/01/2022Now available: OASE 110. The Project of the Soil
This issue of OASE makes a critical analysis of how soil connects to urban planning and urban design, and how it can adjust those practices in exploring new agendas.
- 18/01/2022Call for Abstracts OASE 114. Optimism or Bust?
- Call for Abstracts OASE #114 about “Optimism or Bust?”, written by editors Stefan Devoldere, David Peleman and Jantje Engels.The deadline is 27 February 2022.Read the full text of the Call in the PDF file.
- 11/01/2022Online presentation OASE 108 & 109 on 14 January 2022 at 15:00
Read all about the presentation in the pdf file.
- 19/10/2021Call for Abstracts OASE 113. Authorships
George Nelson Installation. © Vitra Design Museum Archive
- 07/10/2021Now available: OASE 109. Modernities
A different understanding of Modernity
> From a linear to a cyclical model for architectural history
- 01/06/2021NEW DEADLINE Call for Abstracts OASE #112
- THE NEW DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN YOUR ABSTRACT FOR OASE #112 IS: 15 JUNE 2021OASE editors Bart Decroos, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner and Kornelia Dimitrova wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #112 with the theme “Ecological Aesthetics”. This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that investigate the role of aesthetics in contemporary ecological practices and discourses in architecture. Deadline is 15 June 2021. Read the full text of the OASE #112 Call for Abstracts in the pdf-files below.
- 28/03/2021Now available: OASE 108. Ups & Downs
> What is good, not so good or bad architecture?
> Analysis of the force field of architectural appreciation and depreciation
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