Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality

Malkawi, Ali, Kolarevic, Branko

This book addresses the emergence of a new kind of architecture, in which building performance is a guiding design principle, adopting new performance-based priorities for the design of cities, buildings, landscape and infrastructures. This emerging architecture places broadly defined performance above form making; it uses digital technologies of quantitative and qualitative performance-based simulation to offer a comprehensive approach to the design of the built environment. The emphasis on building performance is now redefining expectations of the building design, its process and practice.

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A rigorous theoretical volume exploring the intersection of digital simulations, computational form-making, and performative architecture.

EAN

9780415700832

Publisher

Routledge

Published

17 December 2004

Pages

272

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