The Problem-solving And Interpretation In Architectural Project Competition

As an important way to obtain excellent designs, architectural competitions havebeen adopted in many world-renowned architectural designs for centuries. Along witha number of architectural masterpiece produced, the competitions also made the urbanconstruction events appear increasingly frequently in the public view.Since architectural competitions becoming active from the20th, new ideas,thoughts, and technology were booming up and expanding their influence, thuspromoting universal acceptance and recognition of the whole community of them.The economic globalization has endued cosmopolitan characteristics to competitions.With architects of different backgrounds compete together, their diverse answers ofvarious issues greatly enrich and extend the connotation and extension of the city.As rapid economic development occurred during the past decades, the large-scaleurban construction has attracted a large number of foreign architects to participate indomestic architectural design. However, since domestic architectural competitions arestill in a starting and relatively low level stage, the local designers have beengradually marginalized in the design of large-scale construction projects. Therefore,the in-depth, systematic analysis and research of architectural project competitions inorder to better guide the practice of local designers is around the corner.In reviewing the world-renowned architectural competition works, the essay isdivided into four parts to discuss the method of solving and interpretation applied inrecent competitions as followed. The first part introduces the history and developmentof the architectural design competition for classifications, features, organization andpositive roles. In the second part, the frequently used problem-solving ideas andexpressions by outstanding architects are summarized through the analysis of classiccontest cases. In the third part, design concept, architectural vocabulary and practicalimplementations of the different designers are more intuitively compared in the sameproject, by studying the works in three competition cases. In the last part, suggestionsproposed along with the status quo and problems of domestic contemporaryarchitectural competition practice make the essay of more practical value.