1. Maarten Van Den Driessche

        Bio
        Maarten Van Den Driessche has been a professor of theory and methodology at Ghent University since 2018. His research is situated in the field of design theory, building typology and public commissioning. Maarten is a founding member of lab A and has led several research projects in this field. His publications include De school als ontwerpopgave: Schoolarchitectuur in Vlaanderen 1995-2005 (with Bart Verschaffel, 2005) Robbrecht and Daem Architects: An Architectural Anthology (2017). He is co-curator of the exhibition ‘Wonen in Diversiteit’ (2017). Together with Lieven Nijs, he organised the research seminar ‘Brick Wall City’, in which they conducted an exploratory study on ‘Pilot Projects in Climate Districts’, commissioned by the Flemish Government.
        [last updated in 2020]

      2. issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–110 are available in PDF format

             
        1. 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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        2. 21/02/2023
          Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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        3. 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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        4. 02/12/2022
          Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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        5. 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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        6. 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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        7. 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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        8. 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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        9. 01/04/2022
          Now 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!

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        10. 23/01/2022
          Now 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.

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