2021.01.22 | Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
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 […]
2021.01.01 | Netherlands
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 […]
2019.09.26 | Netherlands
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 […]
2018.09.24 | Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Ukraine
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 […]
2018.09.14 | Albania, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, United Kingdom
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 […]
2018.05.27 | Denmark, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, United Kingdom
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 […]