Architecture Competition: Project Design and the Building Process

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Ignaz Strebel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Jan Silberberger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Architecture Competition

Project Design and the Building Process

Ignaz Strebel (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Jan Silberberger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Camille Crossman , Peter Holm Jacobsen

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Routledge
18 September 2018

Architecture: professional practice; City & town planning - architectural aspects; Human geography; The environment; Regional & area planning

Series: Design and the Built Environment

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.

Contributions by: Camille Crossman, Peter Holm Jacobsen, Andreas Kamstrup
Edited by: Ignaz Strebel (ETH Zurich Switzerland), Jan Silberberger (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138368637
ISBN 10: 1138368636
Series: Design and the Built Environment
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 18 September 2018
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Primary , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ignaz Strebel and Jan Silberberger are senior researchers within the Center for Research on Architecture, Society and the Built Environment, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. They have collaborated on various research and design projects, including the development of the internet platform KONKURADO | Web of Design Competitions 1.0.