Planning competitions are used in public and private projects as an instrument for optimising the design and selecting planning partners. For both small and large projects, the organised, fair, transparent and specialist process helps to improve the quality of urban development, buildings, open spaces and art. Like its successful predecessor title, this book documents the competition procedures coordinated by [phase eins]. in recent years. Founded in 1998, [phase eins]. is one of the leading offices for project consulting and competition management in the fields of architecture and urban design. A total of 27 projects in Germany, Austria, Albania, Ukraine, Kuwait, Belgium, Canada and Lebanon are presented with extensive illustrations and explanations. The book also contains texts on fundamental issues relating to the competition system.

Christine Eichelmann, born in Werneck in 1959. She completed her architectural studies at the TU Berlin in 1986. After working as an architect at Studio Libeskind (Berlin), OMA (London) and Karen van Lengen (New York), also as a project manager, she was a partner of [phase eins]. project consultants + design competition organizers between 2008 and 2016. She was also a research assistant at the TU Berlin and ran her own architectural practice from 1994 to 1997. Since 2016, she is working as an architect at the German Federal Foreign Office.