1st Edition

Competition Grid Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions

Edited By Maria Theodorou, Antigoni Katsakou Copyright 2019
    224 Pages
    by RIBA Publishing

    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. 

    Architecture Competitions between Experience and Experiment

    Maria Theodorou and Antigoni Katsakou

    Part 1: The Rules of The Game

    The Evolution of the UK Competition System

    Judith Strong

    On Competition Rhetoric and Contemporary Trends

    Elisabeth Tostrup

    International Competitions after World War II (1948-1975) and the International Union of Architects (UIA)

    Aymone Nicolas

    Discussions – Part 1; Competition Practices in the UK and the Role of the RIBA (Paul Crosby)

    RIBA-USA: A Different Take on Competitions

    Jonathan Wimpenny et al.

    Part 2: Experimenting Within Architectural Competitions

    Architecture Competitions Made in Denmark

    Kristian Kreiner

    Experimentation within Swedish Competitions

    Magnus Rönn

    Managerial Practices in Dutch Competitions and Impact on Architects

    Leentje Volker and Marina Bos-de Vos

    Discussion – Part 2; Professionals Winning over the Competitions’ System

    Sara Grahn et al.

    Part 3: Experimenting with Architectural Competitions

    E-procurement Delivering Better Design Competitions

    Walter Menteth

    BIM, A Discussion in Norwegian Competitions

    Birgitte Sauge

    New Proposals for the Representation and Assessment of Competition Proposals

    Tiina Merikoski

    Discussion – Part 3; Experimentation in Context

    Tom Bloxham et al.

    Part 4: Re-Visiting Architectural Competitions' Structures and Forms

    Competitive Strain Syndrome

    Jeremy Till

    Designing the High Line: Defining the High Line through Design Competitions

    Robert Hammond

    Strategien Für Kreuzberg – Relocating the Urban Regeneration Debates into the Neighbourhood

    Florian Kossak

    Discussions – Part 4; Community before Competitions

    Peter Wynne Rees

    Competitions and Educational Structures

    Craig Stott and Simon Warren

    Competitions and Genders – A Feminist Approach (HI-VIS Feminist Design Collective on Reproductive Labour and Competitions)

    Afterword

    Antigoni Katsakou and Maria Theodorou

    Biography

    Maria Theodorou is a Senior Lecturer and coordinator of History & Theory of Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture, as well as Director and founding member of the Independent School of Architecture for All (SARCHA). Her research is well-known internationally and she has been an invited speaker at events in the US (Princeton), UK (AA, Bartlett, ESALA), Switzerland, Prague, and Greece.

    Antigoni Katsakou PhD is a London-based architect and author. She has taught in the UK, Switzerland and Greece, presented her work worldwide and been awarded with several funding grants. She has published in several languages on architectural competitions, including the co-authored Concevoir des logements. Concours en Suisse 2000-2005 [Designing Apartments; Competitions in Switzerland 2000-2005].