5
TH
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
COMPETITIONS
2014
13-14 February 2014
PROCEEDINGS
Edited by Leentje Volker & Beatrice Manzoni
5
INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON
COMPETITIONS
2014
13-14 February 2014
PROCEEDINGS
Contents
Paper session 1
Session 1A: The climate
Towards A Professional Commissioning Practice - An Assessment of Recent Public
Design Competition Culture in The Netherlands 5
Michel Geertse
Some Reflections on the Problematic Location of the Entity “Clients” in the
Ontological Structure of Electronic Ressources on Competitions 22
Jean-Pierre Chupin
“Shall we compete?” 35
Pedro Guilherme
Session 1B: Innovation
Architectural Competitions as a Municipal Instrument for Innovating Space for the
Ageing Society: The Dynamics of Three Competitions 64
Jonas E. Andersson
Crossing the Radical Edge - Which Kind of Innovation Can Architectural Design
Competitions Produce? A Differentiated Approach Based on Housing 81
Silvia Forlati
Beyond the Success and Failure of the Athens D.O.E.S. 2002 Cultural Olympiad
Competition 102
Maria Theodorou
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Paper session 2
Session 2A: The client
The Client Regime in Competitions - From Requirement to Professional Praxis in
Selection of Design Teams to Competitions 120
Magnus Rönn
The Building Process as a Chain of Displacements - Following a Construction Project
from Strategic Planning Through an Architectural Competition to the Building Permit 143
Jan Silberberger, Ignaz Strebel and Peter Tränkle
Intending the Faculty and its Relation with the City 158
Herman Vande Putte
Session 2B: Strategies
Managerial Implications for Architectural Competitions Based on Paradox Theory 186
Beatrice Manzoni, Leentje Volker and Hedley Smyth
The Architect, the Client, the Competition… And the Struggle 196
Antigoni Katsakou
The Competition That Changed Your life: About and Beyond Winning - Strategic Considerations for Architectural Practices on the Basis of The Analysis of 116 Competitions Stories
209
Silvia Forlati
Paper session 3
Session 3A: Assessment
An Epistemological Assessment of Tensions between Expert Evaluations and
Qualitative Judgment in Architectural Competitions 227
Carmela Cucuzzella
Are Clients, Architects and Juries Becoming Environmental? - A Critical View on the Competition Briefs and the Juries' Assessments in Relation to the Outcome in Ten School Competitions
245
Session 3B: Case studies
Reuse of Dreams/Changes of Foci - Expectations and Steering Conditions in Two City
Hall Competition Processes in Kiruna, Sweden, in 2011-13 versus in 1956-58 284
Gerd Bloxham Zettersten
A Critical Overview of Architectural Competitons in Turkey - Two Contradicted
Competition Stories in Istanbul: IMC Blocks / Zorlu Center Projects 310
Devrim Isikkaya
Extending Dialogue in a Design Competition? - A Participatory Urban Design
Competition on Toronto's Waterfront 327
James T. White
Paper session 4
Session 4A: The concept
Success or Failure of Competition Formats - The Sustainability of the Aalto Campus
2015 Building 360
Leif Östman
Competitions of Distraction or Hope? - Public Responsibility, Social Advocacy, and
the Dismantling of Architectural Priorities in the Open Ideas Competition 379
Philip D. Plowright
Choice and the American Architecture Competition 401
Susanna Sirefman
Session 4B: Identity
Constructing Identity ? The Competition for the Dipoli Student Union Building in
1961-62 416
Kristo Vesikansa
A Toolbox for Iconic Architecture 435
Justas Pipinis
Airports in Architectural Competitions 1920-40 459
Mats T. Beckman
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