Competition Grid

Book description

The Competition Grid: Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions is a comprehensive review of architectural competitions. Each section features international research overviews as well as lively discussions with experts that draw on first-hand experience of the competition process.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  5. CONTENTS
  6. ABOUT THE EDITORS
  7. CONTRIBUTORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
  8. SPONSORING PARTNER
  9. PREFACE
  10. INTRODUCTION
    1. ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS: BETWEEN EXPERIENCE AND EXPERIMENT
  11. PART 1 – THE RULES OF THE GAME
    1. 1 THE EVOLUTION OF THE UK COMPETITION SYSTEM
    2. 2 ON COMPETITION RHETORIC AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS
    3. 3 INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AFTER THE SECOND WORLD WAR (1948–1975) AND THE INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ARCHITECTS
    4. DISCUSSIONS / PART 1
      1. 4 COMPETITION PRACTICES IN THE UK AND THE ROLE OF RIBA
      2. 5 RIBA-USA: A DIFFERENT TAKE ON COMPETITIONS
  12. PART 2 – EXPERIMENTING WITHIN ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
    1. 6 ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS MADE IN DENMARK
    2. 7 EXPERIMENTATION WITHIN SWEDISH COMPETITIONS
    3. 8 MANAGERIAL PRACTICES IN DUTCH COMPETITIONS AND THE IMPACT ON ARCHITECTS
    4. DISCUSSIONS / PART 2
      1. 9 PROFESSIONALS WINNING OVER THE COMPETITIONS’ SYSTEM
  13. PART 3 – EXPERIMENTING WITH ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS
    1. 10 E-PROCUREMENT DELIVERING BETTER DESIGN COMPETITIONS
    2. 11 BIM: A DISCUSSION IN NORWEGIAN COMPETITIONS
    3. 12 NEW PROPOSALS FOR THE REPRESENTATION AND ASSESSMENT OF COMPETITION PROPOSALS
    4. DISCUSSIONS / PART 3
      1. 13 EXPERIMENTATION IN CONTEXT
  14. PART 4 – REVISITING ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITIONS’ STRUCTURES AND FORMS
    1. 14 COMPETITIVE STRAIN SYNDROME
    2. 15 DESIGNING THE HIGH LINE: DEFINING THE HIGH LINE THROUGH DESIGN COMPETITIONS
    3. 16 STRATEGIEN FÜR KREUZBERG: RELOCATING THE URBAN REGENERATION DEBATES INTO THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
    4. DISCUSSIONS / PART 4
      1. 17 COMMUNITY BEFORE COMPETITIONS
      2. 18 COMPETITIONS AND EDUCATIONAL STRUCTURES
      3. 19 COMPETITIONS AND GENDERS: A FEMINIST APPROACH
  15. AFTERWORD
  16. INDEX
  17. PICTURE CREDITS

Product information

  • Title: Competition Grid
  • Author(s): Maria Theodorou, Antigoni Katsakou
  • Release date: June 2019
  • Publisher(s): RIBA Publishing
  • ISBN: 9781000701357