1. Marcel Musch

        Bio
        Marcel Musch is an architect and urban-design consultant. As assistant to Max Risselada, he did research on Hans Scharoun and Jean Prouvé and was involved, among other things, in the exhibition ‘Functionalism 1927-1961’. He was one of the organisers of the ‘Context & Modernity’ symposium (1990). He has taught at Delft University of Technology and the Academies of Architecture in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. He has written articles about private commissions and construction code-free building, land politics, rural development and the relationship between structural visions and urban design. He is currently working at the BVR consultancy, where he works on plans for urban redevelopment.
        [last updated in 2008]

      2. issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           

          issues 1–114 are available in PDF format

           
      1. 23/10/2024
        Call for Abstracts OASE 122

        Ecological Pedagogies / Written by Janna Bystrykh, Bart Decroos, Jantje Engels, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner / Deadline 1 December 2024

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      2. 06/10/2024
        Call for Submissions

        Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism

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      3. 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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      4. 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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      5. 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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      6. 21/02/2023
        Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations

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      7. 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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      8. 02/12/2022
        Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL

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      9. 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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      10. 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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