OASE 115: Interfences — Moving Across European Architecture Cultures maps the poetics of architectural design as they emerge from decades of intensifying cross-cultural exchange, tracing how ideas migrate, mutate, and bear fruit across European borders.
About This Book
European architecture has never developed in isolation, and OASE 115 takes that premise seriously. This issue of the long-running Dutch architectural journal examines how transnational exchange — through migration, education, work, and shared design cultures — reshapes the conventions and aesthetics of contemporary practice. Rather than cataloguing national styles, the editors ask harder questions: How does a design become the product of exchange? Does a diversity of cultural backgrounds alter aesthetic judgement? And how does that diversity reorganise the structure of design firms themselves? The result is a nuanced account of architecture as an accumulation of interferences, overlaps, and layered cultural models — one essential for anyone thinking seriously about European architectural identity.
Key Features
- 128 pages of critical essays and editorial content examining transnational design practices across Europe
- Authors: Justin Agyin, Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe, Bernard Colenbrander
- Design by Karel Martens and Aagje Martens
- Published by Nai010
What You'll Discover
- How architectural ideas developed in one European region migrate and are reinterpreted elsewhere, producing hybrid design outcomes
- The relationship between cultural diversity within design firms and their aesthetic and organisational choices
- How historical narratives tied to specific European locations are reworked through contemporary transnational practice
- The ways migration, education, and professional mobility function as vectors of architectural influence and transformation
About the Author
OASE 115 is edited by Justin Agyin alongside Kornelia Dimitrova, Christoph Grafe, and Bernard Colenbrander. The journal OASE is a established critical platform for architectural discourse, and this editorial team brings together perspectives on European design culture, history, and contemporary practice.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 128
- Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789462087835
- Publisher: Nai010
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers engaged with transnational practice, academics researching European architectural culture and identity, and students of architectural history with an interest in how cultural exchange shapes built form.