Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
by Michael Hensel
- Editor(s)
- Michael Hensel
- Publication
- Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2013
- Scope
- 152 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9780470973318
This book explores the meaning of performance in the context of the built environment, design processes, sustainable architecture, spatial organization, and other aspects of design. Though ‘performance’ first evolved as a concept in the humanities in the 1940s and 1950s, it has never previously been systematically applied in architecture in an inclusive manner. Here Michael Hensel offers Performance-Orientated Architecture as an integrative approach to architectural design, the built environment and questions of sustainability. He highlights how core concepts and specific traits, such as climate, material performance and settlement patterns, can put architecture in the service of the natural environment. This involves key concepts such as non-discrete and non-anthropocentric architectures. The latter focuses on architecture and ecology relations and multiple species integration in architecture to help sustain ecosystems and biodiversity.
- Keywords
- architecture theory , ecology , sustainist architecture , performance architecture
- Location
- Cabinet 15 - 1: Architectuur
- Extra themes
- Body and Architecture, Body and Space
- Remarks
- Incl. selected Bibliography.
