Oase 49/50 is an investigation of an architectural approach that consciously engages with the context of everyday culture.
Architects' statements and studies of architectural work, documentation and photographs illustrate this search for a general- or generic - language which aims at relating to continuity and convention as found in the architecture that surrounds us. In the first place this is a matter of perception. The sharp eye of the photographer renders visible what would otherwise go unnoticed. When designing, architects take over from photographers embarking on a process of recording and repairing, looking for abstraction and priorities, quoting and investing the architectural object with a new sense of irony or monumentality.
Rediscovering and reassessing an interrupted tradition was one of the points of departure for postwar architects such as Alison and Peter Smithson, Frans van Gool or Hans Döllgast. Half a century later types, formal features, materials and lifestyles found in our everyday environment define a frame of reference for the younger generation of architects from Holland and England, Belgium and Austria presented in this issue.
Oase 49/50 is an investigation of an architectural approach that consciously engages with the context of everyday culture.
Architects' statements and studies of architectural work, documentation and photographs illustrate this search for a general- or generic - language which aims at relating to continuity and convention as found in the architecture that surrounds us. In the first place this is a matter of perception. The sharp eye of the photographer renders visible what would otherwise go unnoticed. When designing, architects take over from photographers embarking on a process of recording and repairing, looking for abstraction and priorities, quoting and investing the architectural object with a new sense of irony or monumentality.
Rediscovering and reassessing an interrupted tradition was one of the points of departure for postwar architects such as Alison and Peter Smithson, Frans van Gool or Hans Döllgast. Half a century later types, formal features, materials and lifestyles found in our everyday environment define a frame of reference for the younger generation of architects from Holland and England, Belgium and Austria presented in this issue.