Christoph Grafe

1. Christoph Grafe
  Bio
  Christoph Grafe is an architect, curator and writer who lives and works in Amsterdam, London and Wuppertal. He is a professor of architecture history and theory at the University of Wuppertal. From 2011 to 2017 he served as the director of the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp. He is a visiting professor at the University of Hasselt (Belgium) and the Politecnico di Milano. His book People’s Palaces: Architecture, Culture and Democracy in Post-War Western Europe was published in 2014. Grafe is an editor of OASE and publisher/editor of Eselsohren.
  [last updated in 2020]
2. OASE 115
  Interfences:
  Moving across European Architecture Cultures
  2023
  Abstract
  European architecture is characterized by an ongoing exchange of cultures, ideas and influences. In recent decades, this process has intensified. Ideas developed in one region can migrate and …
  Editors of this issue
  Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe, Bernard Colenbrander
  
  Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe
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  Interferences
  Moving across European Architecture Cultures
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  Editorial
  
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  OASE 113
  Authorship
  2023
  Abstract
  What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Irina Davidovici, Véronique Patteeuw
  
  Tom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw
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  Authorship as a Construct
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  Editorial
  
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  OASE 109
  Modernities
  2021
  Abstract
  The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds
  Editors
  Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw & Hans Teerds
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  Modernities
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  Tom Avermaete & Christoph Grafe
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  A History of Multiple Modernities:
  Architecture Culture and Its Conceptions of ‘the Modern’
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  Avermaete and Grafe examine the historical trajectory of concepts of modernity and the rhetorical figure of a ‘rupture’ that these tended to share, at least in European history of culture and …
  
  Tom Avermate, Christoph Grafe
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  Francesca Torzo
  A Conversation with Francesca Torzo
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  The conversation between Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe and Francesca Torzo led her to write about the sustained value of memory and the poetics of texts, buildings and other material artefacts in …
  
  Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw
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  BeL Sozietät für Architektur
  A Conversation with Anne-Julchen Bernhardt & Jörg Leeser
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  Anne-Julchen Bernhardt and Jörg Leeser’s letters from Cologne to Christoph Grafe and Véronique Patteeuw show us a project in a highly charged and contested urban context. In the project, the …
  
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  OASE 106
  Table Settings.
  Reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt
  2020
  Abstract
  The German-American philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) once stated that spatial thinking is ‘political’ thinking, as it is concerned about the world and its inhabitants. We certainly can …
  Editors of this issue
  Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek
  Authors
  Pier Vittorio Aureli (Dogma), Geoge Baird, Jeffrey Bolhuis (AP+E Office) & Tara Kennedy, Patrick Bouchain (Construire), Ken De Cooman (BC Architects), Nicola Delon (Encore Heureux), Mary Duggan (Mary Duggan Architects), Pauline Fockeday, Anne Geenen (Site Practice), Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek, Hannah Knoop (Studioeurope), Patchen Markell, Véronique Patteeuw, Cecilia Sjöholm, Hans Teerds, Ard de Vries (Ard de Vries Architecten) & Donna van Milligen Bielke (Studio Donna van Milligen Bielke)
  
  Hans Teerds, Christoph Grafe, Catherine Koekoek
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  Four Themes for Architecture in The Writings of Hannah Arendt
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  Writings of Hannah Arendt In her work, Hannah Arendt does not deal with the built environment in concrete terms, nor does she write about architecture as a professional field that literally shapes …
  
  Pauline Fockedey, Christoph Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw
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  Paris, 10 September 2019
  A Conversation with Patrick Bouchain and Nicola Delon
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  This text is a conversation with Patrick Bouchain and Nicola Delon, representing two different, yet interconnected generations and approaches to architecture. Bouchain’s career connected to projects …
  
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  OASE 101
  Microcosm
  Searching for the City in Its Interiors
  2018
  Abstract
  In the modern city, everyday life is increasingly moving towards the inside of buildings. The interiors of department stores, market halls, administration buildings, museums or theatres are part of …
  Editors of this issue
  Aslı Cicek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias, Daniel Rosbottom
  Authors
  Gideon Boeie & Thomas Rasker, Claudia Conforti, Fredie Flore, Casper Franken & Sereh Mandias, Christoph Grafe, Marius Grootveld, Aura-Luz Melis, Giulia Ricci, Daniel Rosbottom, Eireen Schreurs, Eva Stoorgaard
  
  Aslı Çiçek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias & Daniel Rosbottom
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  Microcosms
  Finding the City in Its Interiors
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  Editorial
  
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  The Microcosm of London:
  The Interiors of the City as an Archive of Life and Death
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  The image of cities through the interiors of buildings has a long tradition. Often they are images of power and status. They show halls in palaces, churches andtheatres and celebrate the opulence …
  
  Aslı Çiçek, Christoph Grafe, Sereh Mandias
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  A Conversation with Daniel Rosbottom
  Quotidian Monuments
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  OASE 92
  Codes and Continuities
  2014
  Abstract
  This issue of OASE magazine sheds light on a set of modernist architectural approaches that have languished in the shadow of their canonical counterparts. In this way, OASE offers points of …
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  
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  Other Modernities
  Observations about a North-West-European Architecture
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  Belgian mid-twentieth century architecture is unsettling. In the post-war years large infrastructural projects descended upon existing cities, ripping apart historic ensembles …
  
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  OASE 87
  Alan Colquhoun
  Architect, Historian, Critic
  2012
  Abstract
  OASE 87 is dedicated to the thinking and the position of British architect Alan Colquhoun, situated within today’s debate on architecture criticism. The issue presents not only the different …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
  Editors
  Anne Holtrop, Bruno Notteboom, Christoph Grafe, Christophe Van Gerrewey, David de Bruijn, Gus Tielens, Hans Teerds, Job Floris, Klaske Havik, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Avermaete, Tom Vandeputte, Véronique Patteeuw
  
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
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  Composition and Typology
  Alan Colquhoun's building projects
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  This contribution discusses seven of Colquhoun’s architectural projects, which he produced, successively, at the London County Council (LCC), at the practice of Lyons Israel Ellis, and at the firm …
  
  Christoph Grafe, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete
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  Editorial
  Alan Colquhoun. Architect, Historian, Critic
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  Christoph Grafe, Tom Avermaete
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  A Conversation with Alan Colquhoun
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  In this interview Colquhoun addresses the present-day (im-)possibility of a metaphysical framework for judging architecture, alluding to the theories of Niklas Luhmann and Jacques Derrida. Both …
  
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  OASE 86
  Baroque
  2011
  Abstract
  In OASE 86, the architecture of the baroque is revisited and assessed with specific regards to its relevance for modern and contemporary architecture. On the basis of several historical …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, David de Bruijn, Job Floris, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte
  Editors
  Anne Holtrop, Bruno Notteboom, Christoph Grafe, David de Bruijn, Gus Tielens, Hans Teerds, Job Floris, Klaske Havik, Tom Avermaete, Tom Vandeputte, Véronique Patteeuw
  
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  Hans Scharoun: Culture Is Life with a Unified Structure
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  Hans Scharoun’s introduction to a popular work on European Baroque architecture is a unique document of a modern architect establishing a connection between his own design practice and a …
  
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  OASE 83
  Commissioning Architecture
  2010
  Abstract
  Architecture is realized by a combination of parties, among which there are architects who react to their clients. Despite the attention paid to well-known examples, such as Truus Schröder, …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, David de Bruijn, Job Floris, Gus Tielens
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte, Jeroen Visschers
  
  Christoph Grafe, David de Bruijn, Gus Tielens, Job Floris, Madeleine Maaskant
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  Editorial
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  Architecture is the product of a combination of parties, of a process in which architects respond to their clients. Yet despite the attention paid to a few famed clients, like Truus Schröder, …
  
  Christoph Grafe
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  Patronage and Cultural Activism
  Interview with Klaus Hübotter, Developer and Patron in Bremen
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  Following a period as a developer of housing projects, Klaus Hübotter has made a name for himself since the 1980s as a developer who formulates and implements inventive concepts for re-use …
  
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  Metropolitanism and the Welfare City
  Hjalmar Mehr and the Stockholm Kulturhus
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  Local politicians have long played a pivotal role in the construction of urban building devoted to culture, and they also figure prominently in the post-war reconstruction campaigns in cities …
  
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  OASE 81
  Constructing Criticism
  2010
  Abstract
  The apparent increase in popular demand for volumes presenting works of architecture as novelties has been curiously matched by the marked absence of a critical discussion of the objects that would …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Tom Vandeputte
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  Editorial
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  The editorial of this issue of OASE opens up a reflection on architecture criticism, following the critical encounters (seminars, debates, lectures, round table discussions), the journal organised …
  
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  OASE 79
  The Architecture of James Stirling 1964–1992
  A Non-Dogmatic Accumulation of Formal Knowledge
  2009
  Abstract
  OASE 79 is devoted in its entirety to the architecture of the British architect James Stirling (1926–1992), who played a prominent role in the architecture discourse of the 1980s due to his striking …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Joachim Declerck, Kersten Geers, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, David de Bruijn, Joachim Declerck, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Ruben Molendijk, Hans Teerds, Gus Tielens, Tom Vandeputte, Jeroen Visschers
  
  Christoph Grafe, Joachim Declerck, Kersten Geers, Pier Paolo Tamburelli, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte
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  Editorial
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  Assemblage and Monuments
  James Stirling's Englishness
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  OASE 74
  Invention
  2007
  Abstract
  Invention operates at the centre of artistic identity. As an important and almost intangible element of the architects capacities, it often remains unsaid or unspoken. Invention denotes the moment …
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Anne Holtrop
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Joachim Declerck, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Anne Holtrop, Johan Lagae, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Anne Holtrop
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  Editorial
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  Inventing a decorum for collective experience.
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  OASE 70
  Architecture & Literature
  Reflections/Imaginations
  2006
  Abstract
  Since the early 1990s, literary reflection as a component of the architectural discourse has disappeared into the background. In a favourable economic and political climate, those working within the …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Klaske Havik
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Johan Lagae, Madeleine Maaskant, David Mulder, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Madeleine Maaskant
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  Editorial
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  OASE 67
  After the Party
  Dutch Architecture 2005
  2005
  Abstract
  Dutch architecture of the 1990s is regarded worldwide as a success. The favourable economic and political conditions from the start of the 1990s (the ‘boom’ years) created an advantageous climate …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Max Cohen de Lara, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Johan Lagae, Madeleine Maaskant, David Mulder, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe
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  Eight Year after Nine+One
  A conversation with Marl Linnenmann, Matthijs Bouw, Mechtild Stuhlmacher, Christoph Grafe
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  Exodus to a New World
  Dutch Architecture and Its Yearning for Modernity
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  OASE 65
  Ornament
  Decorative Traditions in Architecture
  2004
  Abstract
  Set against the background of artistic production in a highly eclectic age, the limited range of references explored by many architects and their focus on the forms and models of modernism produced …
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Mark Pimlott, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Johan Lagae, Madeleine Maaskant, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe, Mark Pimlott, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
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  Editorial
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  OASE 61
  Suburbia and Social Democracy
  2003
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Pnina Avidar, Like Bijlsma, Filip Geerts, Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Marc Schoonderbeek, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant
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  Editorial
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  Christoph Grafe
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  Les Terrasses de Camden
  The Hanging Gardens of North London Revisited
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  OASE 57
  1970s Revisited
  2001
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Lara Schrijver, Marc Schoonderbeek, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe, Andre lsai Leirner
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  Public Landscapes
  The Centro Cultural de São Paulo
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  Concrete Rocks on the Thames
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  OASE 56
  Domestic Nature
  2001
  Abstract
  This issue of OASE, number 56, is the second of two on gardens. In the first one we examined the role the garden can play in relation to architecture and described both the garden as an inhabited …
  Editors of this issue
  Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, Marc Glaudemans, Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
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  Editorial
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  Christoph Grafe
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  Raisins from Manure
  Leberecht Migge's wonder gardens
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  OASE 55
  Home and Garden
  2001
  Editors of this issue
  Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Riëtte van der Werff
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, Marc Glaudemans, Christoph Grafe, Madeleine Maaskant, Marcel Musch, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Like Bijlsma, Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Riëtte van der Werff
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  Two Gardens, Two Houses
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  OASE 49–50
  Convention
  1998
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Vincent Kompier, Marcel Musch, Ivan Nio, Lara Schrijver, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
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  IdeaBuilding
  Occupation and construction, Christoph Grafe in a conversation with Stephen Bates and Jonathan Sergison
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  Finite orders and the art of everyday inhabitation
  The Hunstanton School by Alison and Peter Smithson
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  Christoph Grafe, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
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  Epilogue
  A conventional building at Zaandam and five rhetoric questions to Felix Claus and Kees Kaan
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  OASE 45–46
  Essential Architecture
  1997
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Marcel Musch, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  Editors
  Like Bijlsma, François Claessens, Wouter Deen, Udo Garritzmann, Mikel van Gelderen, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Vincent Kompier, Marcel Musch, Sanna Schuiling, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
  
  Christoph Grafe, Marcel Musch, Mechthild Stuhlmacher
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  Editorial
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  Barren truth
  Physical experience and essence in the work of Rudlph Schwarz
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  issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only
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  OASE 43
  Zwischenraumgespenster
  1995
  Editors of this issue
  François Claessens, Udo Garritzmann, Mikel van Gelderen, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Marcel Musch, Michiel Riedijk, Sanna Schuiling, Mechthild Stuhlmacher, Willem Sulsters
  
  Christoph Grafe, Mikel van Gelderen
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  Bijlmerruimte
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  OASE 39
  De huivering en de stenen
  Materialiteit en fysieke ervaring
  1994
  Editors of this issue
  Juliette Bekkering, François Claessens, Mikel van Gelderen, Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Vincent Kompier, Michiel Riedijk, Willem Sulsters, Pieter Van Wesemael, Jurjen Zeinstra
  
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  Sublimering van materie en licht: het Danteum
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  OASE 37–38
  1994
  Editors of this issue
  Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Erik Terlouw, Harm Tilman, Juliette Bekkering, Jurjen Zeinstra, Kristiaan Borret, Michiel Riedijk, Mikel van Gelderen, Pieter Van Wesemael, Willem Sulsters, Wim van den Bergh
  
  Christoph Grafe, Dirk van den Heuvel, Erik Terlouw, Harm Tilman, Juliette Bekkering, Jurjen Zeinstra, Kristiaan Borret, Michiel Riedijk, Mikel van Gelderen, Pieter Van Wesemael, Willem Sulsters, Wim van den Bergh
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  Persoonlijk en zorgvuldig
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