Competing for excellence in architecture
Subtitle: editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (2006-2016)
By: edited by Jean-Pierre Chupin
Publisher: Potential Architecture Books
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780992131753
Subjects: Architectural drawing; Architecture; Competitions
Work titles: Concourir à l'excellence en architecture. English
Description: "A travel guide for those in search of architectural quality, this book can be browsed in many ways. Written in a clear and concise manner by about thirty authors, it features a collection of editorials from the Canadian Competitions Catalogue (CCC), a large online digital archive open to the public since 2006. The editorials explore more than sixty Canadian architecture competitions held in the last seventy years. Especially in recent years, both public and private institutions have organized competitions across Canada, producing hundreds of architectural, urban planning, and landscape design projects. Together these proposals, most of which remain unbuilt, constitute a fantastic treasure in our tangible and intangible common heritage. Given that competition organizers, designers, juries, and critics never operate alone, there is no doubt whatsoever that this book results from the collaboration of a myriad of people, contributing to and competing for excellence in architecture."--
Notes: Translation of: Concourir à l'excellence en architecture, éditoriaux du Catalogue des Concours Canadiens (2006-2016).

Includes bibliographical references.