Editing Architectural design competition (section)

==Competition types==
Various competition paradigms exist, most prominently the following types or combinations of them:<ref>{{cite web
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Open vs, Invited (or Otherwise Limited) Competitions:
* Open Competitions: international, national, regional, or otherwise defined in scope, they typically have little or no restrictions on who may enter.
* Invited, Limited, Pre-Qualified, or otherwise Non-Open Competitions restrict who may participate (and, in many cases, also provide stipends or honorariums to participants) Project vs. Ideas Competitions:
* Project Competitions:  seek schemes for specific building and/ or landscape projects that the commissioning entities intend to realize
* Ideas Competitions: held for the purpose of generating new ideas (in some cases, particularly novel, provocative, or visionary ones) Single- vs. Multi-stage Competitions 
* Single-Stage Competitions:
* Multi-Stage Competitions (two stages or more), many of which invite only short-listed participants, a limited group of chosen semi-finalists, to continue to the next stage(s), for which they might receive a stipend or honorarium to help cover costs Anonymous vs. Non-Anonymous Competitions:
* Anonymous Competitions: judged or juried, for greater objectivity, with no knowledge of the names or identities of participating individuals and firms
* Non-Anonymous (or Cooperative) Competitions: Competing architects and firms are openly identified from the start (competitors might even be invited to present their projects in person to the  jury to explain design strategies and provide for project-specific dialogue) Recurrent vs. One-Time Competitions:
* Seasonal or Annual Competitions: These recurrent competitions, including [[Europan]], put out periodical calls for entries. They may, or may not, result in an actual constructed project, depending on the set-up.
* One-Time Competitions, held for a specific project
* [[Student design competition|Student Design Competition]]s