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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Calatrava is a starchitect because he can make the functional beautiful, like not too many others can. Many architects can design something that works, and then dress I up to look nice, but Calatrava doesn't do that. The dressing up is thought of from the start.
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On the contrary if you don't spend the proper resources to ensure your proposal is feasable your entry into a design competition is little more than an exercise in self gradification.
I guess what I am trying to say here is that I know at least a hand full of people that could have spent the time to enter interesting conceptual designs but recognized it as the waste of time it would be. This also totally ignores the fact that the AAA sent formal letters of reprimand to any licenced architect that entered the competition because it was not conducted in compliance with the architects act.
There are very strict rules under the architects act controlling how competitions are to be carried out and who can enter them. So no, not just anyone could have entered the competition