OASE 113: Authorship puts one of architecture's most contested concepts under sustained critical pressure, asking what it means to own a project — and whether individual authorship remains a viable or even desirable idea in an era of collaborative practice.
About This Book
Who is the author of a building? The question sounds simple until you press on it. This issue of OASE, the long-running Dutch architectural journal, takes authorship as both a professional condition and an intellectual problem. As architectural practice grows more distributed — across disciplines, offices, and geographies — the romantic figure of the singular creative author looks increasingly untenable. Yet the editors resist a straightforward dismissal: authorship, they argue, is not only about originality but about a form of deep commitment, a devotion to a work that persists from conception to realisation. The result is a focused inquiry into creative responsibility, invention, and the ethics of attribution in contemporary architectural culture.
Key Features
- 128 pages of critical essays and editorial content exploring architectural authorship
- Edited by T. Avermaete, C. Grafe, I. Davidovici, and V. Patteeuw
- Published by Nai010
What You'll Discover
- Why the concept of individual authorship may obstruct — rather than enable — the inventive and innovative thinking contemporary practice demands
- The distinction between authorship as an act of originality and authorship as a form of sustained commitment to a work's realisation
- How collaborative models of architectural production challenge and reshape traditional notions of creative ownership
- Whether retaining the concept of authorship in architecture today is intellectually defensible, and on what grounds it might be justified
About the Author
OASE 113 is edited by T. Avermaete, C. Grafe, I. Davidovici, and V. Patteeuw. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789462087330
- Publisher: Nai010
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects, architectural theorists, and educators grappling with questions of creative responsibility, collaborative practice, and the evolving ethics of attribution in the discipline.