Pier Vittorio Aureli

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1. Pier Vittorio Aureli
  Bio
  Pier Vittorio Aureli is an architect, theorist and educator. He studied at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia IUAV and later at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. Together with Martino Tattara, he founded the Brussels-based architecture office Dogma in 2002. He currently teaches at the AA School of Architecture in London and is visiting professor at Yale University. He is the author of many essays and books, including The Project of Autonomy (2008) and The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011).
  [last updated in 2020]
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  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 …
  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)
  
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  Architecture beyond Creation
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  Architecture as we know it today, architect Pier Vittorio Aureli writes in his essay, cannot do without the ‘labour’ of a multitude of laborers. However, the authorship of the ‘work’ is distributed …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 97
  Action and Reaction in Architecture
  2016
  Abstract
  OASE 97. Action and Reaction presents a collection of confrontations between architects themselves, and between architects and architecture critics.Creating and thinking about architecture has …
  
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  The Monument and the Field: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in Georgian London
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  Although it is impossible to prove that Nicholas Hawksmoor built his churches in seventeenth-century London as a reaction to the generic city developments at that time, Pier Vittorio Aureli retraces …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 94
  OMA. The First Decade
  2015
  Abstract
  This thematic issue of OASE sheds new light on the architectural production of OMA during its first decade (1978-1989) – a mythical but at the same time not very well known period in the history …
  
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  Architecture and Counterrevolution
  OMA and the Politics of the Grands
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  In his essay, Pier Vittorio Aureli describeshow OMA gave vent to the politics of theGrands Projets, launched between 1982and 1983 by the French government. Thecompetitions for public monuments …
  
  issues 1–114 are available in PDF format
  OASE 90
  What is Good Architecture?
  2013
  Abstract
  Many problems in today’s architecture world would vanish if every once in a while it was clearer what is meant by good architecture. The ‘crisis of criticism’, for instance, is a symptom – seldom …
  
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  A Spectacle of Deepest Harmony
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  Good architecture can only be defined by talking about the making of it. Architecture is good when it manifests itself by making room for something else. The relationship with power has always been …
1. 12/02/2025
  Call for Abstracts OASE 123
  Incompleteness / Written by Sebastiaan Loosen, Hans Teerds, Tom Avermaete / Deadline 7 March 2025
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2. 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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3. 06/10/2024
  Call for Submissions
  Geert Bekaert Prize for Architecture Criticism
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4. 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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5. 11/11/2023
  call for abstracts OASE 119
  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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6. 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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7. 21/02/2023
  Call for Abstracts OASE 117. Village Variations
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8. 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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9. 02/12/2022
  Presentation OASE 112 on 8 December 2022 in Rotterdam, NL
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10. 24/11/2022
  Call for Abstracts OASE 116
  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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