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.

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Christine Eichelmann, born in 1959. She completed her architectural studies at the TU Berlin in 1986. She was a partner of [phase eins]. project consultants + design competition organizers between 2008 and 2016. Since 2016, she is working as an architect at the German Federal Foreign Office.