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.
In recent
decades, the drawing practices in landscape design and urbanism have
seen a number of transformations. Current developments in theory and
practice have rendered the distinction between the two more diffuse.
Both disciplines are no longer regarded as architecture – or gardening –
‘on a larger scale’, primarily anchored in questions of housing, land
development or embellishment. Today ecology, energy transition or
‘metabolic’ issues are much more present, which leads to new forms of
drawing. Leaving an object-oriented thinking behind, both disciplines
seem to be convinced of the importance of the process and the impact of
the factor of time. Space has become understood as an intersection – a
‘coagulation’ – of a multiplicity of flows and processes.
For
designers it is an essential question how all these flows and processes
come together, materialize, and become visible, and how their
‘spatialization’ in drawings is represented in analysis and design. The
design and the drawing seem to be torn between a process-oriented agenda
and a spatial intervention whose success depends on disciplinary
expectations of care, materiality and intrinsic aesthetic qualities.
Sustainable design not only presupposes a bold solution to the problem,
but must also be beautiful, empathic and affective. What role does the
drawing play – from cartography to sketch? Which traditions offer
starting points? What innovations are needed?
Erratum December 2020
Unfortunately, the articles by Heidi Svenningsen Kajita (“Finding & Archiving”) and Holger Schurk (“The Potential of Abstraction”) are not included in the table of contents on the back of the paper edition of OASE 107. This mistake has been corrected in the e-book, but could not be corrected in the paper version anymore.
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.
> Unique OASE issue on locations of metabolism that kept communities urban households in order.
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With contributions by: Burkay Pasin & Gul Kacmaz Erk; Ben
Vandenput; Koenraad Danneels; Julia von Mende; Dagmar Pelger & Emily
Kelling; Ludo Groen; Nitin Bathla; Andrea Bortolotti, Andrea Aragone
& Marco Ranzato; Diana Soeiro; Ciel Grommen, Dieter Leyssen &
Maximiliaan Royakkers; Nadia Casabella & Jan Denoo; Riccardo M.
Villa en Hans Vandermaelen.