Design by Competition: Making Design Competition Work

by Jack L. Nasar

Overview

Too often, design competitions and signature architecture result in costly eyesores that do not work. How can sponsors and clients get more meaningful results? To answer this question, 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 meaning. The studies, from those specific to the Wexner Center to those covering the scope of history, point to a new method for shaping the visual form of buildings, places and cities. Architects, urban designers and planners, social scientists, clients, government officials and residents will want to read this thought-provoking book. It will give them a new perspective on the designed environment.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521444491
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	02/28/1999
Series:	Environment and Behavior
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

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.