Performance-Oriented Architecture
Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
by Michael Hensel

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Editor(s)

Michael Hensel

Uitgever

Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2013

Omvang

152 p., geïllustreerd, 22 cm.

ISBN

9780470973318

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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.

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Trefwoorden

architecture theory , ecology , sustainist architecture , performance architecture

Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 15 - 1: Architectuur

Extra thema's

Body and Architecture, Body and Space

Opmerkingen

Incl. selected Bibliography.