Building Culture Describes from inception, the commissioning culture and practice of UK arts buildings, over 204 A4 pages with 185 illustrations and addendices. Is a uniquely comprehensive exposure that offers case studies, research, reference, guidance, analysis of Covid impacts, and recommendations for communities, arts professionals, commissioners, clients, architects, project teams […]
The publication Competition Culture in Europe 2017-2020 that was published today shows a large number of activities, research and education projects on the subject of architecture competition culture in Europe, carried out as part of a four year project initiated by Architectuur Lokaal. Twenty European countries were involved in the […]
In 2021, Architectuur Lokaal published the Portfolio Competition Culture in The Netherlands 1993-2020, an updated inventory of the developments in the culture of design contests in the Netherlands, based on 80 contests that Architectuur Lokaal was closely involved. Holding design contests is not an aim in itself. Contests are an […]
Today Architectuur Lokaal launched the website TheFulcrum.eu. TheFulcrum.eu is the independent, non-commercial portal on competition culture in Europe in the field of architecture. TheFulcrum.eu is the first international portal for architectural assignments in all European countries, whether or not they are members of the European Union. TheFulcrum.eu aims to promote […]
During the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the concept of the proposed EU Competition Culture Dictionary, a vocabulary to avoid misunderstandings, was discussed by Architectuur Lokaal. The reason for compiling a glossary is that there is a lot of confusion on the terms used in international discussions. In Europe, most of […]
The next step in the program Competition Culture in Europe will be the Conference on architectural competitions in Poland from 23 – 25 September. The meeting will take place in the European Centre for Geological Education Chęciny (near Kielce). This event, organized by Hubert Trammer of the Lublin University of […]
The Competition Grid: Experimenting With and Within Architecture Competitions, recently published by Leeds Beckett University, builds a bridge between theory (competitions as a policy instrument) and practice (competitions as an aid to innovation in the built environment), on the basis of which conclusions are drawn about political, legal and social […]
In 2014, with the ‘Reinventer Paris’ project, the municipality of Paris called on developers, investors and designers from all over the world to propose innovative urban projects within the Parisian Peripherique through a development competition for 23 locations at the same time. 22 winning projects are in progress and the […]
Competition Culture in Europe: Voices is a publication from Project Compass on architectural competitions, with a series of essays by 17 distinguished architects, competition organisers, scholars and commentators in 22 chapters, covering 11 countries. The case studies, project data, discussions and interpretive glossary, that together include reflections on historic, contemporary […]
Publication of the results of a pan-European survey executed by Architectuur Lokaal, A10 new European architecture Cooperative and Project Compass CIC. With EU-data-cards and examples of competitions in 17 European countries. Download publication