Design competitions are an indispensable element of quality assurance in architecture urban
design landscape architecture engineering and arts. This book provides a wealth of practical
and formal information on all issues related to the organization of design competitions. It
also presents 60 illustrated practical examples of successfully conducted competitions for 12
building typologies. The authors of this book are architects in Berlin founders and or
partners of [phase eins]. The company is one of the leading offices in Germany and worldwide
for project consulting and competition management in the fields of architecture and urban
development and has managed more than 200 design competitions and tender procedures in 22
countries over the past 25 years.
