Creating architecture has always been defined by participants reacting to each other’s views. In this spirit, OASE 97: Action and Reaction presents a series of confrontations between architects themselves, and between architects and architecture critics. A good architecture culture thrives on such a basis—the exciting battle between views, opinions and beliefs.

OASE 97 describes and illustrates the passionate debates and polemical interactions that have shaped the field of architecture from the seventeenth to the late twentieth century. The result is a collection of opposing yet inseparably connected definitions of good and necessary architecture. 

With texts by Richard Anderson, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Stefano Corbo, Matthew Critchley, Maarten Delbeke, Isabelle Doucet, Roberto Gargiani, Christopher Long, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Christophe Van Gerrewey, Richard Wittman.

Edited by Christophe Van Gerrewey, Véronique Patteeuw, Tom Avermaete. 

Designed by Karel Martens & Aagje Martens

Published by nai010 publishers

Softcover, 128 pages, black and white, 6.75 × 9.5 inches

ISBN 978-94-6208-310-3