Sonja Spruit is a practicing architect and urban planner, based in Cairo. Since 2001, after being a project architect at designstudio Herman Hertzberger, she has been focusing on international development projects. She has worked in in many places, including the Philippines, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Ethiopia, China and Vietnam. Since 2013 she is co-owner of the collective MAATworks, office for sustainable and socially committed architecture. Maatworks is currently producing a number of projects in the built environment, both in the Netherlands and abroad, with an emphasis on building for and with people.
OASE editors Asli Cicek, Jantje Engels and Maarten Liefooghe wrote a Call for Abstracts for OASE #111. The theme is: Staging the Museum. Deadline is 10 January 2021, 18:00 CET. More information in the PDF file below.
This issue of OASE traces the role of drawing in landscape design and
urbanism. It addresses ‘new traditions’ of the last 50 years, as well as
recent concerns with ecological, metabolic and process-oriented
questions.
> Positioning a new outlook on philosopher Hannah Arendt’s ideas, OASE #106 reveils how her writings very well can help us rethink architecture as a phenomenon and practice
> Rethinking Hannah Arendt’s remarkably spatial view on ‘the world and its inhabitants’
A Project of the Soil
Editors: David Peleman, Paola Viganò, Martina Barcelloni, Elsbeth Ronner
> Insight into the work of both historical and contemporary architects
> With a focus on beautiful architectural drawings over the past five centuries to grasp their role in design practice
> With drawings by George Aitchison, Heinrich Tessenow, El Lissitzky, Lina Bo Bardi and Tony Fretton
OASE #108 More Than Meets the eye - Over- and underrated architecture
On 25 November 2019 OASE #104 will be presented at the architecture school La Cambre in Brussel, Belgium.