TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hensel,Michael
TI  - Performance-oriented architecture: rethinking architectural design and the built environment 
T2  - AD primers
SN  - 9780470973325 (hardback)
AV  - NA2542.35 .H46 2013
U1  - 720.47 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Chichester, West Sussex
PB  - Wiley, A John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, Publication, 
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - History
KW  - Architecture, Modern
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-147) and index; Dedication 005 Acknowledgements 005 Foreword by David Leatherbarrow 009 Introduction: The Task at Hand 015 Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance 017 Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance in Architecture 023 Chapter 3: Non-Discrete Architectures 031 Chapter 4: Non-Anthropocentric Architectures 045 Chapter 5: Traits of Performance-Oriented Architecture 053 Local Climate and Microclimate 057 Material Performance 059 The Active Boundary, the Articulated Envelope and Heterogeneous Environments 067 The Extended Threshold 082 Second-Degree Auxiliarity: Supplementary Architectures 095 First-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures 109 Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns 116 Chapter 6: The Road(s) Ahead 133 Select Bibliography 143 Index 148 Picture Credits 152
N2  - This book offers an innovative and highly practical approach to architectural design. Focusing on the concept of performance that brought about a paradigm shift in the humanities in earlier decades, the book discusses how to use this concept to address ongoing problems in architecture
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