Design by Competition
Making Design Competition Work
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Part of Environment and Behavior
- Author: Jack L. Nasar, Ohio State University
- Date Published: November 2006
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521029704
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What meanings do buildings and places convey to the people who use and visit them? Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? In answer to these questions, Dr Nasar, supported by riveting studies of competitions and Peter Eisenman's competition-winning design for the Wexner Center at the Ohio State University, suggests the use of pre-jury evaluation (PJE). He shows the potential value of this approach as well as visual quality programming for many kinds of environmental design for which the client wants to convey certain desirable meanings. The studies, from those specific to the Wexner Center to those covering the scope of history, point to an alternative method for shaping the visual form of buildings, places and cities.
Read more- Detailed scientific critique of the widely publicized, competition-winning and award-winning design for the Wexner Center by the internationally known architect Peter Eisenman, raises questions about post-structural, deconstructivist criticism
- Solid research pointing to flaws in design competitions
- Practical suggestions, based on scientific findings, for improving the visual quality and performance of competition architecture for the public, who often foot the bill
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- Date Published: November 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521029704
- length: 260 pages
- dimensions: 231 x 156 x 13 mm
- weight: 0.371kg
- contains: 49 b/w illus. 29 tables
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
List of illustrations and tables
Introduction
Part I. Background:
1. The Wexner Center competition
2. What do we know about architectural competitions?
3. Meaning matters
Part II. Evaluations:
4. Managing meaning through visual quality programming
5. Popular evaluations of the Wexner Center entries
6. Popular evaluations of the completed building
7. Working in a work of art: a postoccupancy evaluation of the Wexner Center
Part III. Prescriptions:
8. Model for running design competitions
9. Toward a new democratic architecture
Appendices
References
Index.
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