1st Edition

Architecture Competition Project Design and the Building Process

Edited By Ignaz Strebel, Jan Silberberger Copyright 2017
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: unpacking architectural competitions - project design and the building process (Ignaz Strebel and Jan Silberberger); PART I – MANAGING THE PROCEDURE; 1. Two geographical logics in architectural competitions (Ignaz Strebel and Jan Silberberger); 2. The competition between creativity and legitimacy (Kristian Kreiner); 3. The best of both worlds? Client decision making in architect selection processes (Leentje Volker); 4. Design in conversation (An interview with Malcolm Reading); PART II – INSIDE THE COMPETITION; 5. The progressive differentiation of judgement criteria (Jan Silberberger and Ignaz Strebel); 6. Jury board at work: evaluation of architecture and process (Peter Holm Jacobsen and Andreas Kamstrup); 7. Jury boards as ‘risk managers’: analysing jury deliberations within architectural competitions against the background of risk management (Camille Crossman); 8. Competitions beyond spatial specifications (An interview with Dietmar Eberle); PART III – MAKING THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT; 9. The obligatory passage point (Jan Silberberger and Ignaz Strebel); 10. Architecture as process: OJEU tender and procurement without design (Torsten Schmiedeknecht); 11. Advanced structural engineering (An interview with Werner Sobek)

Biography

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.