Design
Karel Martens en Aagje Martens
October 2021
English/Dutch
Paperback/Illustrated (b/w)
170 × 240 mm
Editors of this issue
Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds
Editors
Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
Authors
Tom Avermaete, BeL Sozietät für Architektur, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Caruso St John Architects, Christophe Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Francesca Torzo architetto
The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead? In the 1970s and 1980s, this question was usually considered from the seemingly mutually exclusive points of view of the modern, the anti-modern and the postmodern positions. The lines dividing these positions were also directly linked to certain formal-aesthetic choices, even in terms of the care of existing buildings and the preservation of monuments, in which the boundary between new and old is arbitrary by definition.
Over the past two decades, contemporary European architecture developed a different frame of reference, one in which the horizon is no longer provided by the architecture of the modern movement. Historical typological principles, compositional approaches and material logic are also experienced as modern and they provide the starting point for the design.
OASE 109 traces how, against the background of this broadening frame of reference, a different understanding of modernity emerged.
Editors of this issue
Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Veronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds
Editors
Justin Agyin, Tom Avermaete, Aslı Çiçek, Bart Decroos, Stefan Devoldere, Kornelia Dimitrova, Jantje Engels, Christoph Grafe, Maarten Liefooghe, Sereh Mandias, Véronique Patteeuw, David Peleman, Elsbeth Ronner, Hans Teerds, Christophe Van Gerrewey
Authors
Tom Avermaete, BeL Sozietät für Architektur, Bovenbouw Architectuur, Caruso St John Architects, Christophe Grafe, Véronique Patteeuw, Hans Teerds, Francesca Torzo architetto
The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead? In the 1970s and 1980s, this question was usually considered from the seemingly mutually exclusive points of view of the modern, the anti-modern and the postmodern positions. The lines dividing these positions were also directly linked to certain formal-aesthetic choices, even in terms of the care of existing buildings and the preservation of monuments, in which the boundary between new and old is arbitrary by definition.
Over the past two decades, contemporary European architecture developed a different frame of reference, one in which the horizon is no longer provided by the architecture of the modern movement. Historical typological principles, compositional approaches and material logic are also experienced as modern and they provide the starting point for the design.
OASE 109 traces how, against the background of this broadening frame of reference, a different understanding of modernity emerged.