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Performance-oriented architecture : rethinking architectural design and the built environment /
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 env...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, N.J. :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Colección: | AD primers.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Half Title page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Foreword by 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 ArchitecturesFirst-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures; Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns; Chapter 6: The Road(s) Ahead; Bibliography; Key Search Terms; Picture Credits.