Action and Reaction in Architecture

OASE97
1. 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 always been defined by the mechanism of action and reaction. One way of making architecture is criticized or rejected and immediately used as a starting point for another, opposing and better method, practice or theory. Architects and critics react to each other’s views using drawings, texts, models and buildings. A good architecture culture thrives on such a basis: the exciting battle between views, opinions and beliefs.
  
  OASE 97 describes and illustrates passionate debates and polemical interactions from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century. The result is a collection of opposing yet inseparablyconnected definitions of good and necessary architecture.
  
  Authors: Pier Vittorio Aureli, Stefano Corbo, Matthew Critchley, Maarten Delbeke, Roberto Gargiani,Christopher Long, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Richard Wittman
  Editors of this issue
  Tom Avermaete, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Veronique Patteeuw
  Editors
  Tom Avermaete, Job Floris, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Christoph Grafe, Michiel Dehaene, Klaske Havik, Bruno Notteboom, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Hüsnü Yegenoglu
  October 2016
  English/Dutch
  Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
  170 × 240 mm
  Order this issueas hard copy or ebook
  ISBN97-8946-290-83103
  © NAi Publishers, 2016
  Subsidising institutions
  Technische Universiteit Delft, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Universiteit Gent, Universiteit Hasselt, Team Vlaams Bouwmeester .Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam. Academie van Bouwkunst Arnhem. Academie van Bouwkunst Groningen. Academie van Bouwkunst Maastricht, Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, Academie van Bouwkunst Tilburg
  
  Christophe Van Gerrewey, Véronique Patteeuw, Tom Avermaete
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  Action and Reaction in Architecture
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  Maarten Delbeke
  015
  Bernini – Borromini, or the Janus Face of Roman Baroque
  015
  The rivalry between seventeenthcentury architects Bernini and Borromoni is legendary. Maarten Delbeke reconstructs the popular version, and he shows how it corresponds to historical reality. …
  
  Pier Vittorio Aureli
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  The Monument and the Field: Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Churches in Georgian London
  025
  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 …
  
  Richard Wittman
  035
  Laugier and Viel de Saint-Maux: The Sacred and the Profane in Two Architectural Origin Myths
  035
  While the origin of architecture has been the subject of numerous writings, two important figures came to the forefront in the eighteenth century: Marc-Antoine Laugier and Jean-Louis Viel de …
  
  Christopher Long
  053
  Josef Frank, CIAM, and the Assault on the Unified Ideal
  053
  Viennese architect Josef Frank maintained a very charged relation with the Congrés Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne (CIAM). As one of the participants to the initial meeting of La Sarraz in …
  
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  061
  Truth and Disguises: Philip Johnson and the Non-Miesian Directions
  061
  The oeuvre of Philip Johnson can be described, says Roberto Gargiani, as a reaction to the work of Mies van der Rohe. Mies turned structural elements into symbolic icons of a new architectural …
  
  Stefano Corbo
  081
  Composition versus Decomposition: Palladio, Eisenman and the Quest for Instability
  081
  The work of Peter Eisenman is developed for an important part in reaction to that of Andrea Palladio. Eisenman employs this continuous interaction to question the classical idea of form and to …
  
  Isabelle Doucet
  091
  Aesthetics between Provocation and Production: Counter-Projects
  091
  In Brussels of the mid 1970s ‘counter-projects’ produced by students of La Cambre became a tool of resistance that resonated with the activism of the Atelier de Recherche et d’Action Urbaines (ARAU) …
  
  Christophe Van Gerrewey
  099
  Living in Liberty after 1968: Charles Vandenhove versus Lucien Kroll
  099
  Not only did Belgian architects Vandenhove and Kroll study together, from 1951 onwards they also worked together for a while. Afterwards, they each developed their own and totally opposite oeuvre, …
  
  Léa-Catherine Szacka
  109
  Criticism From Within: Kenneth Frampton and the Retreat from Postmodernism
  109
  ‘The Presence of the Past’, the First International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 1980, was characterised by an opposition within the curatorial team. The advisory committee, …
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