Making architecture compete: open-ended accumulation meets objectification and singularisation in the UK construction industry

Gottschling, Paul

doi:10.1080/17530350.2016.1204346

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“…Further, work on design competitions is ephemeral, with submissions often prepared in fewer than three months and a whole selection procedure completed in under a year. My analysis draws from a multi-stranded, multisited study of architectural selection processes in Europe with an emphasis on the UK between the spring of 2013 and the autumn of 2014 (see Gottschling, 2016Gottschling, , 2017. Research includes 35 interviews with 28 practitioners in the architectural profession (architects, instructors at architectural schools, administrators at the Royal Institute for British Architects and two clients who had organized a competition); and analysis of project documents.…”

Section: Architects In Design Competitions: Two Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Where design competitions matter: Architectural artefacts and discursive events

Gottschling

2017

Journal of Material Culture

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Recent ethnographies among professional architects have given us a novel version of the argument against architectural autonomy: architects work in a condition of entanglement not only with clients and markets, but also with the very objects through which architectural conception takes place. There is a tension between this view and one that surfaces within management scholarship on design competitions. In these studies, the design competition is a moment of architectural work in which architectural autonomy is uniquely pronounced, where the artistic statements of architects achieve a special efficacy. The author investigates the possibility that the design competition enacts a different sort of architectural entanglement than what we see in recent anthropologies. He considers two situations of architects working on design competitions, one in an architectural school in the UK and one at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. He concludes that, in design competitions, discourse itself becomes subject to adjustment and iteration.

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Section: Architects In Design Competitions: Two Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%