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Post-Occupancy Evaluation as a Tool for the Preparation of Architectural Competitions

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In West Germany, the homeland of architectural competitions, all major public building projects are subject to competitions in order to give equal opportunity to all architects, especially to not-yet-well-known architects. Furthermore, in big town planning and urban redevelopment projects, it is mandatory to involve the general public in the preparation and critique of planning proposals.

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  • Bürger-Preisausschreiben Königsplatz-Rathausumfeld, 1987, 3 introductory articles in the local daily paper, and a separate inlay folder with the contest brief and questionnaire.

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  • Competition results, June 1988, published in Wettbewerbe Aktuell, a special magazine for architectural competitions, Munich, vol. 6/88, pages 369–382.

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  • Jockusch, P., Hegger, M., and Ettinger-Brinckmann, B., 1984, German Lesson 1 : Just how successful in reality are the organization and results of the much-praised German competition system?, The Architect’s Journal London, pp. 39–46.

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  • Städtebaulicher Ideen Wettbewerb Königsplatz-Rathausumfeld 1987–88, Kassel-Wettbewerbsunterlagen, October 1987.

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Jockusch, P. (1989). Post-Occupancy Evaluation as a Tool for the Preparation of Architectural Competitions. In: Preiser, W.F.E. (eds) Building Evaluation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3722-3_4

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