Bøger af Tom Avermaete

Architects and designers critically examine their ability to contribute to the discussion on social issues and challengesThis issue of OASE explores the role of architects as public intellectuals and the ways in which they contribute to society beyond design. Architects are well placed to contribute to public debates on challenges related to climate change, the housing crisis and more.

Fleeing Europe in 1939 for the Australian state of Queensland, the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) found himself positioned at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable housing, fiercely proud regional architectural practices, and a suspicion of the foreign, Langer moulded the European language of international modernism to the unique climatic and social conditions of tropical Australia.Published as part of the Bloomsbury Studies in Modern Architecture series, which brings to light the work of significant yet overlooked modernist architects, this book is both an examination of Langer's work and international legacy, and also a case study in tropical modernism and the trans-global dissemination of design ideas - revealing how Langer sought to reconcile his training in international modernism with a fascination for the formal and visual languages of a regional culture, context, and climate.

The annual yearbook Architecture in the Netherlands provides an invaluable overview of contemporary Dutch architecture. The book's editorial team selects 30 outstanding projects completed that year and describes the most important trends that have influenced the production of Dutch architecture.

This volume of Oase, a thematic journal on architecture, urbanism and landscape design, focuses on a generation of modern architects-- Fernand Pouillon, Kay Fisker, Fernando Tavora, Giovanni Muzio and others--who have remained in the shadow of their famous contemporaries but managed to develop entirely unique approaches.

New paradigms for architectural history beyond the linearOver the past two decades, contemporary European architecture has moved past points of view tied exclusively to modern, antimodern and postmodern positions. OASE 109 traces how, against the background of this broadening frame of reference, a different understanding of "modernity" has emerged.

OASE 95 onderzoekt de cross-culturele omstandigheden waarin architecten, stedenbouwkundigen en landschapsarchitecten werken. Het onderzoek richt zich in het bijzonder op architecten die in een omgeving werkzaam zijn waar de cultuur grote verschillen vertoont met die van hun thuisland. Hiermee wil OASE bijdragen aan het hedendaagse debat over de effecten van globalisering en transculturele processen in de architectuur en stedenbouw. In de typerende OASE-stijl wordt een historische analyse gekoppeld aan eigentijdse reflectie en projectdocumentatie. Hierbij wordt in het bijzonder ingezoomd op de manier waarop het werken in een andere omgeving, met andere omstandigheden en krachten, de keuze voor werkwijze en instrumenten van architecten beïnvloed.Historische casestudies over de benaderingen van Constantinos Doxiadis, Michel Ecochard, Jaqueline Tyrwhitt, Jane Drew en Maxwell Fry worden geconfronteerd met reflecties over hedendaagse ontwerpbenaderingen die zich bewegen tussen verschillende culturen.

A study on two different but complementary urban realities that have played a fundamental role in the imagination, the definition, and the redefinition of the 20th century,

A study on two different but complementary urban realities that have played a fundamental role in the imagination, the definition, and the redefinition of the 20th-century modern city.