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Architecture Competition - Project Design and the Building Process (Paperback)
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Architecture Competition - Project Design and the Building Process (Paperback)
Series: Design and the Built Environment
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Much valued by design professionals, controversially discussed in
the media, regularly misunderstood by the public and systematically
regulated by public procurement; in recent years, architecture
competitions have become projection screens for various and often
incommensurable desires and hopes. Almost all texts on
architectural competition engage it for particular reasons, whether
these be for celebration of the procedure, or dismissal. Moving on
from such polarised views, Architecture Competition is a revelatory
study on what really happens when competitions take place. But the
story is not just about architecture and design; it is about the
whole construction process, from the definition of the spatial
programme, to judgement and selection of projects and the
realization of the building. This book explores the competition in
the building process as it takes place, but also before and after
its execution. It demonstrates that competitions are not just one
step of many to be taken, but that competitive design procedures
shape the entire process. Along the way the book exposes, among
others, one of the key evolutions of design competitions - that
competition procedures need to be regulated in order to respond to
public awarding rules and need to integrate an increasing amount of
given standards regarding, for example, efficiency, fire safety and
thermal comfort. These notions force competing architects to
respond to inflexible and overloaded competition programmes instead
of focusing on genuinely crafting an architectural project. If the
architecture competition wants to be more highly valued as a design
tool, it should pay attention to the iterative nature of design and
to the fact that perspectives on the problem often change in
process.
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