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Performance-oriented architecture : rethinking architectural design and the built environment / Michael Hensel.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: AD primersPublisher: Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 152 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0470973323
  • 9780470973325
  • 0470973315
  • 9780470973318
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.47 23
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.35 .H46 2013
Contents:
Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / David Leatherbarrow -- 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 Architectures -- First-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures -- Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns -- Chapter 6. The Road(s) Ahead -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.

Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword / David Leatherbarrow -- 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 Architectures -- First-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures -- Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns -- Chapter 6. The Road(s) Ahead -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits.

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