25 Years of Oase
28 Nov – 18 December 2009 | Forum Window
25 years of OASE, featuring the history of a journal for architecture
OASE, Journal for Architecture is celebrating its 25th anniversary. 75 issues of OASE have been published since the journal was founded by a group of students at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology in the early 1980s. In the course of time, OASE has evolved from a heroic project of self-education by a generation of students who found the teaching offered to them lacking in rigour and breadth, into an autonomous, bilingual architecture periodical published in the Low Countries, yet addressing a widening international audience.
Well known for its remarkable graphic design, OASE now operates as a peer-reviewed journal with a reflective and critical approach to architecture, urban design and landscape architecture. OASE’s 25 years of production are marked less by an agenda or position, and more by an engagement with architecture as a cultural product and as a discipline with its own autonomy, integrity and legitimacy.
Today, this belief in the cultural strength of architecture seems to be more necessary then ever. This exhibition presents the history and development OASE as a journal, its graphic design and the ideas which the journal has addressed since its inception.
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Symposium: Criticism revisited, 28 November 2009
