Architecture Australia

From the competitive to the collegiate

This issue of Architecture Australia opens with an analysis of the contentious issue of architectural competitions. Open competitions are often praised for bringing forward new talent and brave views of the future, yet the bewildering variety of structures and conditions applied across a growing number of competition

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