OASE 51 is dedicated to Alison and Peter Smithson. The issue does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey of their work. It rather displays the state of the art in the research and reception of their work in the Netherlands, and particularly at Delft Faculty of Architecture. This reception goes back as far as 1963 when the Smithsons, together with the other Team 10 architects, participated in the design seminar Indesem at the Delft school. The research into their work becomes only more substantial in the early 1980s after the death of Jaap Bakema when Alison and Peter Smithson held his chair in Delft for a year. The involvement of the editors and authors of this issue of OASE goes beyond a distant, scholarly approach.

OASE 51 is dedicated to Alison and Peter Smithson. The issue does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey of their work. It rather displays the state of the art in the research and reception of their work in the Netherlands, and particularly at Delft Faculty of Architecture. This reception goes back as far as 1963 when the Smithsons, together with the other Team 10 architects, participated in the design seminar Indesem at the Delft school. The research into their work becomes only more substantial in the early 1980s after the death of Jaap Bakema when Alison and Peter Smithson held his chair in Delft for a year. The involvement of the editors and authors of this issue of OASE goes beyond a distant, scholarly approach.