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Maria Theodorou

Maria Theodorou is a Senior Lecturer and coordinator of History & Theory of Architecture at the Leeds School of Architecture, as well as Director and founding member of the Independent School of Architecture for All (SARCHA). Her research is well-known internationally and she has been an invited speaker at events in the US (Princeton), UK (AA, Bartlett, ESALA), Switzerland, Prague, and Greece.

Antigoni Katsakou

Antigoni Katsakou PhD is a London-based architect and author. She has taught in the UK, Switzerland and Greece, presented her work worldwide and been awarded with several funding grants. She has published in several languages on architectural competitions, including the co-authored Concevoir des logements. Concours en Suisse 2000-2005 [Designing Apartments; Competitions in Switzerland 2000-2005].

David Vanderburgh, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Louvain

“This volume brings together a remarkable group of international experts on competitions, in a fruitful mix of academics and practitioners. The idea of the competition as experimentation is pertinent and more than just a metaphor. As the authors contend, the competition context is an opportunity for experimentation, both in terms of its rules and constraints, and in terms of its internal dynamics. An important lesson to be learned from this book is that so-called creative disciplines are not that distant from what we call science.”

Angie Pascoe RIBA AADip FRSA

“Maria Theodorou and Antigoni Katsakou have produced something rather wonderful here, adding to our knowledge and understanding drawn from a breadth of voices and experiences, which is both thought provoking and invigorating, and with any luck might even change the ways that architectural experiments and competitions are viewed and carried out in future.”

David Turnbull, Professor of Architecture at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union for the Advancement

“This book is exemplary, the editors and authors unwavering, and its appearance, timely.”

Indira van t Klooster, founder and editor-in-chief of A10 new European architecture Cooperative

“Competition Grid is a profound study into both input and output of competition culture. Based on historical and actual case studies, interviews and academic research, Maria Theodorou and Antigoni Katsakou explore possible innovations in design competitions and procurements. A great source of learning and inspiration to everybody concerned with improving quality and quantity of design competitions.”