Architectural competitions
Subtitle: histories and practice
By: editors: Jonas E Andersson, Gerd Bloxham Zettersten and Magnus Ronn
Contributors: Rönn, Magnus; Royal Insitute of Technology
Publisher: The Royal Institute of Technology; Rio Kulturkooperativ
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Stockholm; [Fj©Þllbacka]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9789185249169
Subjects: Architecture; Competitions; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for architects, organizers and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture; title: The competition has also turned into a field of research, and this book is part of an effort constituting the architectural competition as a field for studies with scholarly claims; title: The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe; title: Another clear manifestation of research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions; title: To be in the position of presenting accounts that are exciting as well as instructive and informative on the subject of architectural competitions is a pleasure; title: The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research; title: The competition processes bear rich empirical findings to which one may refer for knowledge about architecture as professional practice, as educational subject and research platform; title: The architectural competition illustrates processes of change in society that are technical and organizational as well as social; it shows up constructive dilemmas, the borderline of rationality and the relative, creative insecurity of knowledge production in architectural projects.