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OASE 90: What is good architecture?

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OASE 90 investigates the expectation behind existing value models in architecture. Many problems in today’s architecture world would vanish if every once in a while it was clearer what is meant by good architecture. The ‘crisis of criticism’, for instance, is a symptom of the impossibility of knowing (or daring to know) what good architecture is. Over the past century, models for architecture evaluation such as modernism and postmodernism have been modified by supermodernism and retromodernism, and more recently by sustainability. Nevertheless, it is impossible to work with architecture – in design, theory or history – without making assumptions about criteria for quality. This issue uncovers and makes explicit the assumptions underlying these models, by posing the simple question ‘What is good architecture?’ in different ways and have it answered by people whose ‘main occupation’ is architecture. This issue of OASE can be like a banquet at which each guest selects something entirely different from the menu in a well-reasoned and forthright way – and so keeps the architecture party going.

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Oase 106: table settings - reflections on architecture with Hannah Arendt

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Architects contemplate Hannah Arendt’s spatial-political thinking. Hannah Arendt once stated that spatial thinking is political thinking. The latest issue of OASE gathers contributions from architects—George Baird, Patrick Bouchain, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Mary Duggan—who examine their work from Arendt’s perspective.