Na een tijd waarin begrippen als 'programma', 'data' en 'beeld' de boventoon voerden, zien we in de hedendaagse architectuurpraktijk nu een hernieuwde zoektocht naar 'sfeer'. OASE heeft de twee vooraanstaande architecten Peter Zumthor en Juhani Pallasmaa, die sfeer hebben uitgeroepen tot een kernthema van de architectuur, uitgenodigd om in gesprek te gaan over hoe je sfeer bouwt.In zijn interview met OASE verbindt de Finse architect Juhani Pallasmaa het begrip sfeer met zintuiglijke ervaringe...

Architect en architectuurpublicist Herman Hertzberger (1932) is internationaal geroemd om zowel zijn gebouwde als zijn geschreven werk. Gebouwen als Centraal Beheer, Apeldoorn (1972) en veel van zijn scholen, maar ook zijn publicaties, zoals het in vele talen vertaalde Lessons for Students in Architecture, hebben generaties architecten en studenten geïnspireerd. In dit boek legt Hertzberger de fundamenten van zijn architectuurvisie bloot. '

'Dit boek doet een poging om te formuleren wat stru...

De infrastructuur van de stad vormt een 'spaghetti' van straten, tunnels, routes en lijnen. Maar infrastructuur kan veel meer zijn dan een functionele noodzaak. Infratecture staat voor het daadwerkelijk integraal ontwerpen en realiseren van infrastructuur met als doel naast een functionele oplossing voor verkeersstromen ook sociologische, culturele, ecologische en economische meerwaarde te creëren.

Infratecture laat zien hoe met een juiste mentaliteit, oprechte samenwerking en een uitgekien...

Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on architecture and literature.This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the relationship between architecture and literature, which has already resulted in the publication of Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016.

Each issue of the journal will focus on themes central to the fruitful relationship betwe...

The aim of this study is to gain more insight into how homeowner’s associations work in low-income owner-occupied apartments. When parts of the residential buildings such as the ground on which they are built and the infrastructure are joint property,

then a homeowners' association is necessary to keep maintenance of the common property parts. The lack of maintenance of these communal areas is a problem of increasing proportions, which has prompted this research. Which factors play a decisive

role in how homeowner’s associations function and how building maintenance is organized, how important is the horizontal property law and how does this affect low-income housing policy in Colombia and Ecuado...

In this PhD research, the major environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, sustainable energy transition and scarcity of resources, are approached from a spatial, landscape-architectural perspective. The goal is to accelerate the transition to liveable, low carbon cities. The focus of the research is at the local scale and attempts to turn challenges into opportunities for a better quality of life and living environment.

This research contributes to sustainable urban develo...

This research sought to understand how the trajectory of urban development, which is shaped by the colonial legacy, has produced the contemporary geography of contention in Malaysia. Given that public space is shaped by the colonial legacy, how does it

facilitate or hinder street protests as a function of democracy, which is also a vestige of colonialism? To do this, rather than going into a long discussion about notions of public sphere and public space, much of which originated from Western...

This thesis explores the role of Chilean third sector organisations as part of the solution to support homeowners in condominium improvement and management. The following research question is asked: what are effective and feasible strategies for third sector organisations to support Chilean low income homeowners in the management of social condominiums?. In order to answer the main question, key questions are organised into three main parts: conceptualisation, analysis and proposal. The gener...

At the main point of intersection between the railway and the city, stations are key elements in the organization of the intermodal transport as well as catalysts of urban developments in metropolises, medium and small cities. The focus of this publication is to explore the enrichment of a renewed approach of railway stations as intermodal nodes, therefore acting as breeding grounds for both urban and social developments.

In this publication, invited experts from practice and knowledge instit...

Public libraries want to contribute to an inclusive and innovative society and aim to enable their patrons to acquire the necessary 21st century skills. Dutch public libraries are therefore gradually adding more and more activities to their curriculum, teaching these different types of skills, such as ‘invention literacy’.

They also often provide a ‘performative space’ (i.e. a makerspace) for their patrons. This means library spaces are no longer dominated by books, but rather reflect...