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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Hensel, Michael

Titel

Performance-oriented architecture : rethinking architectural design and the built environment [electronic resource]

Link zum Volltext

• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Foreword; Introduction: The Task at Hand; Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance; Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance in Architecture; Chapter 3: Non-Discrete Architectures; Chapter 4: Non-Anthropocentric Architectures; Chapter 5: Traits of Performance-Oriented Architecture; Local Climate and Microclimate; Material Performance; The Active Architectural Boundary, the Articulated Envelope and Heterogeneous Environments; The Extended Threshold
• Second-Degree Auxiliarity: Supplementary ArchitecturesFirst-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures; Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns; Chapter 6: The Road(s) Ahead; Select Bibliography; Index; Picture Credits
• Architecture is on the brink. It is a discipline in crisis. Over the last two decades, architectural debate has diversified to the point of fragmentation and exhaustion. What is called for is an overarching argument or set of criteria on which to approach the design and construction of the built environment. Here, the internationally renowned architect and educator Michael Hensel advocates an entirely different way of thinking about architecture. By favouring a new focus on performance, he rejects longstanding conventions in design and the built environment. This not only bridges the gap b
• Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 21, 2013).