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Design competitions are used worldwide in public and private projects as a tool to optimize design and select design partners. For small and large projects alike, the quality of urban and architectural design, landscape architecture and art is sustainably improved by this orderly, fair, transparent, and professional process. Founded in 1998, [phase eins]. is one of the leading offices in Germany and worldwide for project consulting and competition management in the fields of architecture and urban development. On occasion of their 25th anniversary, the partners of [phase eins]. present the fourth volume of "The Architecture of Competitions". As in the three previous volumes, the competitions...
The case studies in this book describe how clients’ promotion of innovative communities of practice has led to important collections of architectural works. The book provides an assessment of the effectiveness of their approaches. Architects and clients will understand what to look for as they construct their careers and their portfolios with innovation as a goal. It is taken for granted nowadays that supporting innovative architecture benefits society. In countries as diverse as Austria, Australia, Belgium, England, Japan, South East Asia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and the USA, retailers, institutions, local and regional government and transport authorities have established substantial bodies of work by new and emerging architects. This books looks at what their goals are and how they have achieved them. Is it possible to promote sustainable communities of innovative practice through such patronage? Can innovation be ‘kick-started’ by importing visionary works?
The UIA competition is one of the most important competitions for students of architecture. Every 3 years the UNESCO prize for architecture is awarded to the winner. The theme of the competition in 2002 was the future of an inner-city area in central Berlin: the aim was to provide an environmentally friendly and practical contribution to the redevelopment of this significant area, and at the same time to define a new architectural language for the 21st century. This book documents the background, the results and the winning designs from this competition which attracted more than 1000 participants.
The class Mollicutes (trivial name “mycoplasma”) encompasses a large group of bacteria having no cell-wall and a minute size genome (580 to 2,200 kb). From an evolutionary point of view, Mollicutes are derived from a common ancestor to Gram-positive bacteria with low G+C content and are considered as some of the most evolved prokaryotes. Despite their limited coding capacity, most Mollicutes can be cultivated in axenic media and thus include some of the simplest life-forms capable of autonomous replication. As such, these minimal bacteria have been used as a biological model to decipher cell functions and as blueprints for the synthesis of synthetic minimal genomes. Far from models, this monophyletic group is well known to include a broad range of important human, animal, plant and insect pathogens. In their hosts, these minimal pathogens usually establish persistent infections along with degenerative diseases which have a significant impact on human and animal health as well as on livestock and crop production.
Reference work on the subject of architecture competitions. Presents topical competition entries from 2006 to 2008 Top quality international examples, e. g. from BRT, gmp, Kisho Kurokawa and Zaha Hadid
Yearbook of the Association of German Architects. 50+ architectural practisesrojects. Dual Text English and German.
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