Afterword
More than 30 authors of 15 different nationalities, disciplines, and social and professional contexts have contributed to the making of this book. If nothing else, this broad participation illustrates the subject’s range of interest and diversity; its interdisciplinary and complex nature. After all, competitions are inseparably linked to the production of the built environment as a social matter that affects almost everyone’s lives and well-being.
Competitions are without doubt a controversial topic: they have been (and will continue to be) discussed both as architectural ‘creativity feasts’, and ‘blood-sucking beasts’ of the profession; as instigators of innovation, and obsolete mechanisms for ...
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