25 years of OASE: exhibition opening
Friday 27 November 2009, 6:30pm, Forum & Gallery
25 years of OASE, featuring the history of a journal for architecture /
JAMES STIRLING – a non-dogmatic accumulation of formal knowledge
Exhibition opening & lectures by Joachim Declerck and Irénée Scalbert
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.
The opening of the exhibition coincides with the launch of OASE no. 79:
JAMES STIRLING – the non-dogmatic accumulation of knowledge, edited by Joachim Declerck, Christoph Grafe, Ruben Molendijk, Tom Vandeputte with Kersten Geers and Pierpaolo Tamburelli as guest editors. With essays by Guy Chatel, Tony Fretton, Patrick Lynch, Irénée Scalbert, Peter St John, Charles Sutherland, Amanda Reeser Lawrence, Paul Vermeulen, Ellis Woodman, Claire Zimmerman and the editors.
Speakers:
Joachim Declerck, editor of OASE
Irénée Scalbert, architect and writer, London
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