Title & Author:

Performative architecture : beyond instrumentality / edited by Branko Kolarevic & Ali M. Malkawi.

Publication:

New York : Spon Press, 2005.

Description:

v, 266 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Architecture's unscripted performance / David Leatherbarrow -- Product and process : performance-based architecture / Andrew Whalley -- Sustainable design : an American perspective / Mahadev Raman -- Biotechniques : remarks on the intensity of conditioning / William Braham -- Performance form / Thomas Herzog -- Performance simulation : research and tools / Ali M. Malkawi -- A framework for rational building performance dialogues / Godfried Augenbroe -- Engineering complexity : performance-based design in use / Craig Schwitter -- Engineering in a performative environment / Jean-Francois Blassel -- Non-standard structural design for non-standard architecture / Harald Kloft -- Communicative display skin for buildings : Bix at the Kunsthaus Graz / Jan Edler -- The structure of vagueness / Lars Spuybroeck -- Performativity : beyond efficiency and optimization in architecture / Ali Rahim -- Computing the performative / Branko Kolarevic -- Towards the performative in architecture / Branko Kolarevic -- Performance (and performers) : in search of direction (and a director) / Peter McCleary -- Conceptual performativity -- Operative performativity.

Summary:

"This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildings, landscape and infrastructures. This emerging architecture places broadly defined performance above form making; it utilizes digital technologies of quantitative and qualitative performance-based simulation to offer a comprehensive approach to the design of the build environment. The emphasis on building performance is now redefining expectations of the building design, its process and practice. By bringing together the leading architects, engineers and technologists, the book will explore current and future developments in performance-based design. It is aimed at both professional and academic audiences and will cover a wide range of themes."--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description
Table of contents

ISBN:

0415700833 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780415700832 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0203536851 (ebook)
9780203536858 (ebook)

Subject:

Buildings Performance.
Buildings Energy conservation.
Architecture Decision making.
Constructions Comportement.
Constructions Économies d'énergie.
Architecture Prise de décision.
Architektur
Performance
Bouwkunst.
Architectuurtheorieën.
Philadelphia <Pa., 2003>

Added entries:

Kolarevic, Branko, 1963-
Malkawi, Ali.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 243598
Call No.: TH453 .K65 2005
Status: Available