The building process as a chain of displacements - Following a construction project from strategic planning through an architectural competition to the building permit

While research on architectural competitions can be considered a well-established field nowadays, research on the transition between the competition procedure and the subsequent project phase remains fragmentary. The paper at hand aims at addressing this gap. Standing in the tradition of actor-network theory (Callon 1986; Law and John 2004; Latour 2005) the paper is attentive to the various displacements that shape a construction project from strategic planning and preliminary studies to the end of the competition procedure and then through the subsequent project phase. In this way, the paper embeds the architectural competition into the building process and elaborates a perspective on the latter as a set of intertwining procedures that constantly assess and re-define the construction project