To coincide with the latest edition, OASE magazine is organising a discussion with Willem Jan Neutelings (Neutelings Riedijk Architects) and Xaveer De Geyter (XDGA) about action and reaction in architecture. This takes place on Monday 12 December at deSingel International Arts Campus in Antwerp (BE).
Since the emergence of architecture as a more or less autonomous discipline, writing and thinking about architecture, as well as designing and building, has been defined by action and reaction – in the thought processes of designers, but also through the interplay between architects, historians and critics in the public domain. Anyone committed to architecture will study its history, endeavour to make a critical distinction between different practices, and assume – whether consciously or not – a position that is relative to a desirable architecture (practice).
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About OASE #97
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 inseparably connected definitions of good and necessary architecture.
Authors: Richard Anderson, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Stefano Corbo, Matthew Critchley, Maarten Delbeke, Isabelle Doucet, Roberto Gargiani, Christopher Long, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Richard Wittman.
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