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 1–107 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 1–107 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 1–107 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 1–107 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. 01/04/2022
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2. 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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3. 18/01/2022
  Call for Abstracts OASE 114. Optimism or Bust?
  Call for Abstracts OASE #114 about “Optimism or Bust?”, written by editors Stefan Devoldere, David Peleman and Jantje Engels.
  The deadline is 27 February 2022.
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4. 11/01/2022
  Online presentation OASE 108 & 109 on 14 January 2022 at 15:00
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5. 19/10/2021
  Call for Abstracts OASE 113. Authorships
  George Nelson Installation. © Vitra Design Museum Archive
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6. 07/10/2021
  Now available: OASE 109. Modernities
  A different understanding of Modernity
  > From a linear to a cyclical model for architectural history
  
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7. 01/06/2021
  NEW DEADLINE Call for Abstracts OASE #112
  THE NEW DEADLINE FOR HANDING IN YOUR ABSTRACT FOR OASE #112 IS: 15 JUNE 2021
  OASE editors Bart Decroos, Sereh Mandias, Elsbeth Ronner and Kornelia Dimitrova wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #112 with the theme “Ecological Aesthetics”. This issue of OASE is interested in contributions that investigate the role of aesthetics in contemporary ecological practices and discourses in architecture. Deadline is 15 June 2021. Read the full text of the OASE #112 Call for Abstracts in the pdf-files below.
  
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8. 28/03/2021
  Now available: OASE 108. Ups & Downs
  > What is good, not so good or bad architecture?
  > Analysis of the force field of architectural appreciation and depreciation
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9. 05/02/2021
  VIDEO: OASE #107 author Heidi Svenningsen Kajita on finding & archiving
  In this video OASE #107 author Heidi Svenningsen Kajita guides us into the process of drawing collectively through the Finding & Archiving method.
  
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10. 24/01/2021
  VIDEO: OASE #107 author William Mann, Witherford Watson Mann Architects, on the Upper Lea Valley
  In this video OASE #107 author and architect William Mann (Witherford Watson Mann architects, London) guides us through the process and drawings of the Upper Lea Valley.
  
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