1. Geert Bekaert

        Bio
        Geert Bekaert is an architecture historian, critic and theorist. He is professor emeritus of the history and theory of architecture at the KULeuven and Eindhoven University of Technology. In 1988 he won the Rotterdam Maaskant Prize. Most of his writings have been collected in Verzamelde Opstellen, of which nine volumes have been published. In 2011 an English anthology was published, entitled Rooted in the Real. Writings on architecture
        [last updated in 2012]

      2. issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

             

            issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

               

              issues 1–44 appeared in Dutch only


              issues 1–113 are available in PDF format

                 
            1. 21/11/2023
              call for conversations OASE 118

              Rationalism Revisited

              This Call is written by Justin Agyin, Bart Decroos, Christoph Grafe. The deadline is 17 December 2023.

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            2. 11/11/2023
              call for abstracts OASE 119
              1. Review of Jean-Louis de Cordemoy's Nouveau traité de toute l'architecture in Mémoires pour l'histoire des sciences & des beaux-arts, September 1706

              Book Reviews
              From Words to Buildings
              In this issue of OASE, the history of the architectural book review is outlined through case studies. This Call is written by Christophe Van Gerrewey and Hans Teerds. The deadline is 20 December 2023.

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            3. 06/03/2023
              BK Talks on 16 March 2023 about 'Design with Soil: Urbanizing the living surface'

              On 16 March 2023 the TU Delft will host a debate inspired by OASE 110.

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            4. 21/02/2023
              Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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            5. 31/01/2023
              Now available: OASE 113. Authorship

              What does the author’s ‘owning’ of a project mean? And does this sense of ownership still prevail in contemporary architecture culture? Other more open forms of cooperation and co-creation are emerging alongside the concept of individual singular authorship.

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            6. 02/12/2022
              Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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            7. 24/11/2022
              Call for Abstracts OASE 116
              1. Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)

              ‘The Architect as Public Instellectual’
              Deadline: 23-12-2022

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            8. 15/10/2022
              Now available: OASE 112. Ecology & Aesthetics

              Through a series of concrete projects, the contributions in this issue explore the field of tension between architectural aesthetics and issues of energy, technology and materiality. Ecological practices in architecture must not only be effective in providing solutions, but inevitably raise questions of beauty, affection and perception as well.

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            9. 23/05/2022
              Call 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.

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            10. 20/05/2022
              Now 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.

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