Preface
Using the idea that architecture competitions resemble a grid as their implied organising principle, the editors of this collection aim to explore, and in so doing extend, the meaning of architecture competitions as experiments. They take the notion beyond the consensually agreed upon sense proposed (mea culpa, by this author)1 of the competition as a structure, an experiment-like process, with rules that assure that results are comparable to each other, and which hints at the associated belief that the end result will not only be the selection of a superior project but also an experimental one, with all the nuances of innovation and invention that implies.
The extension is done in many ways. First and foremost, the ...
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