Title & Author:

Architectural competitions : histories and practice / editors, Jonas E Andersson, Gerd Bloxham Zettersten and Magnus Rönn ; authors, Jonas E Andersson, Gerd Bloxham Zettersten, Magnus Rönn [and eleven others].

Publication:

[Stockholm] : The Royal Institute of Technology ; [Fjällbacka] : Rio Kulturkooperativ, 2013.

Description:

349 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), plans (some color) ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Editors' comments / Jonas E Andersson, Gerd Bloxham Zettersten and Magnus Rönn -- Architectural competitions in Finland / Maarit Kaipiainen -- The competition generation. Young professionals emerging in the architectural scene of Switzerland through the process framework of housing competitions : a case study / Antigoni Katsakou -- Architecture for the "silvering" generation in Sweden : architecture competitions as innovators for the elderly / Jonas E Andersson -- Experience of prequalification in Swedish competitions for new housing for the elderly / Magnus Rönn -- Prequalification in the UK and design team selection procedures / Judith Strong -- Architectural competitions as lab : a study on Souto de Moura's competition entries / Pedro Guilherme and João Rocha -- Facing the challenges of organising a competition : the Building for Bouwkunde case / Leentje Volker -- Constructing the client in architectural competitions. An ethnographic study of architects' practices and the strategies they reveal / Kristian Kreiner -- Inside the jury room. Strategies of quality assessment in Swedish architectural competitions / Charlotte Svensson -- High ideals on a tricky site. The 1939 competition for the New Government Building in Oslo / Elisabeth Tostrup -- The balancing act between historicism and monument preservation in some international competitions in Germany / Thomas Hoffmann-Kuhnt -- The architecture competition for the Stockholm-Bromma Airport, 1934 / Mats T Beckman.
English, with bibliographical references mostly in Swedish.

Summary:

"Architectural competitions are no longer simply professional praxis for architects, organizers and a recurrent exercise for students at schools of architecture. 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. The first doctoral dissertations on competitions were presented in the 1990s in Europe. Another clear manifestation of research interest is the growth and spread of scholarly conferences on architectural competitions. 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. The contributions to the book show in a convincing way that the architectural competition is an interesting and rewarding object for research. 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. 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."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9789185249169 (pbk.)
9185249165 (pbk.)

Subject:

Architecture Competitions History.
Barrier-free design for older people Competitions.
Older people Housing Europe.
Architectural design Competitions.
Architecture Concours Histoire.
Architecture Competitions.
Older people Housing.
Europe.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Andersson, Jonas E., 1964- editor, author.
Bloxham, Gerd, editor, author.
Rönn, Magnus, editor, author.
Kungl. Tekniska högskolan.
Rio kulturkooperativ.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 318172
Call No.: 318172
Status: Available