Hensel, Michael, <br/><br/>
Performance-oriented architecture :  rethinking architectural design and the built environment / 
Michael Hensel. 
 - 152 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm. 
 - AD primers .
 - AD primers. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index. 
<br/><br/> Dedication --  Acknowledgements --  Foreword /  Introduction: The Task at Hand --  A Brief History of the Notion of Performance --  A Brief History of the Notion of Performance in Architecture --  Non-Discrete Architectures --  Non-Anthropocentric Architectures --  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 --  The Road(s) Ahead --  Select Bibliography --  Index --  Picture Credits.  David Leatherbarrow --  Chapter 1.  Chapter 2.  Chapter 3.  Chapter 4.  Chapter 5.  Chapter 6. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0470973323 9780470973325 0470973315 9780470973318 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Architecture, Modern.<br/>Architectural design--History
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>NA2542.35  / .H46 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.47