- OASE 52
- Consumption and Territory
- 1999
- Abstract
- In the past few decades, there has been a process of de-institutionalization of the housing production in European countries with a strong social-democratic tradition. In such instances, the government withdraws its investments and shifts them to the free market. Traditional government tasks – initiation, design, financing – are taken over by developers and privatized housing corporations. The public-private relationships have thus drastically changed, but the essence of the social-democratic housing tradition – centralized direction retaining strong aesthetic control – has remained intact, especially in the Netherlands. Resistance against the continuity of this ‘monopolistic’ and ‘centralistic’ practice has arisen in the Netherlands in recent years. There have been suggestions for an alternative model based on the liberalization of land policies and more freedom for the individual housing consumer. We are directed with some enthusiasm toward the US and Belgium, where this ‘wild living’ is a traditional commonplace. An important consequence of the ‘liberalist’ model is the removal of the mediation between the urban plan and architecture; urbanism is roads and building lots; architecture is the individual, context-free dwelling. It is interesting to note however, that in recent years precisely these countries have seen an increase in movements that question the excess of freedom in this type of spatial planning, and argue for a stronger connection between a city plan and its residential building. This issue of OASE investigates the problematic of the commodification of housing production and, within this, the relations between the building and the land it sits on: consumption and territory. The premise is defined by the field of tension between demand – from quantitative to qualitative – and supply – privatization in the housing market.
- Editors of this issue
- François Claessens, Wouter Deen, Marcel Musch, Lara Schrijver
- December 1999
- Dutch/English
- Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
- 170 × 240 mm
- Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
- ISSN0169-6238
- ISBN90-6168-558-3
- © SUN Publishers, 1999
- Subsidising institutions
- Netherlands Architecture Fund
- 12/02/2025Call for Abstracts OASE 123
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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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- 24/11/2022Call for Abstracts OASE 116
Carmen Portinho in front of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro (source: Wikimedia Commons)
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