Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality

By Jose Rafael Magdalena Benedito, Marcelino Martinez Sober, Antonio Jose Serrano Lopez, et al.

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. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415700833
• ISBN13: 9780415700832
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 10.3" x 10.5"