OASE is an independent, international, bilingual (Dutch / English) journal featuring architecture, urban design and landscape design. What distinguishes OASE from related publications is the depth and scope of reflection directed at the topic in question. Each issue is devoted to a contemporary theme, thus providing a significant contribution to the international debate on the aforementioned fields of study. In a diversity of essays and background articles, a select group of nationally and internationally recognised authors from the world of architecture and urban design focus on research and theorisation within their chosen disciplines. Guaranteeing the scholarly and scientific validity of the journal, moreover, is the active participation of architecture faculties at major universities in Delft, Louvain and Ghent.
> Published three times a year
> The journal in which a reflective and critical position on architecture, urban design and landscape architecture occupies centre stage.
> Since october 2003 OASE is published every four months by NAi Publishers by order of the OASE foundation
> With support from the Netherlands Architecture Fund (Rotterdam), Prince Bernhard Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), Stichting Geertruida Gerharda Bolhuis (Groningen), Delft University of Technology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Ghent University.
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Andrew Leach, Dirk De Meyer, Christian Kieckens, Luigi Moretti, Hans Scharoun, Martijn van Beek, Irina Davidovici
Editors: David de Bruijn, Maarten Delbeke, Job Floris, Christoph Grafe, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte
Design: Karel Martens and Werkplaats Typografie, Paperback, Illustrated (b/w), 128 pages, size: 17 x 24 cm
English/Dutch edition, ISBN 978-90-5662-841-3, € 25.00
December 2011
In association with Die Keure
With the support of the Netherlands Architecture Fund
In OASE 86 the architecture of the baroque era is placed under the microscope and assessed with regard to its relevance for modern and contemporary architecture. On the basis of several historical studies, this issue examines how the complex geometric compositions and surface treatments of the baroque might be coupled with contemporary design practice. To that end, the authors turn their attention to buildings from this epoch (which often receive too little attention), such as the Bohemian baroque of Santini Aichel and the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, and examine the reception of the baroque by architects such as Hans Scharoun and Luigi Moretti.
The manner in which the baroque has been a fertile medium for recent architectural practice in Europe is investigated in interviews with Hermann Czech and Christ & Gantenbein and in studies of the work of, for example, Robbrecht & Daem and Valerio Olgiati. This reveals that architects are repeatedly and purposefully employing the baroque as an antidote when design practice or architecture theory is in danger of becoming sterile.
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