
Performance-Oriented Architecture
Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
Michael Hensel(Author)
Wiley (Publisher)
Published on 8. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
152 pages
978-0-470-97331-8 (ISBN)
Description
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. It explores the meaning of performance in the context of the built environment, design processes, sustainable architecture, spatial organization, and other aspects of design. Featuring numerous color illustrations plus historical and contemporary examples, this is an eye-opening resource for architects and urban designers.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
sewn/stitched
Dimensions
Height: 223 mm
Width: 169 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
394 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-470-97331-8 (9780470973318)
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Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
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Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
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Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
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Person
Michael Hensel is an architect, researcher, educator and writer. He is Professor of Architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where he directs the Research Center for Architecture and Tectonics. He cofounded OCEAN in 1994, and is founding and current chairman of the OCEAN Design Research Association and the Sustainable Environment Association, as well as an editorial board member of Architectural Design (AD). He has co-guest-edited five titles of AD, including seminal issues on emergence and the architecture of Turkey and Iran. He is currently writing The Handbook for Traditional Sustainable Buildings for John Wiley & Sons.
Content
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