Performance-Oriented Architecture - Michael Hensel
Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment
KORTE INHOUD
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 environment. Here, the internationally renowned architect and educator Michael Hensel advocates an entirely different way of thinking about architecture. By favouring a new focus on performance, he rejects longstanding conventions in design and the built environment. This not only bridges the gap between academia and practice, but, even more significantly, the treatment of form and function in design. It also has a far-reaching impact on knowledge production and development, placing an important emphasis on design research in architecture and the value of an interdisciplinary approach. Though ‘performance’ first evolved as a concept in the humanities in the 1940s and 1950s, it has never previously been systematically ...
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2013Uitgever: Wiley & Sons, Limited, John152 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0470973323ISBN-13: 9780470973325Koop dit boek tweedehands
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[Auteur: Hensel, Michael] [Pagina's: 152] [Taal: en] [Uitgever: Wiley] [Jaar: 2013] [Titel: Performance-Oriented Architecture: Rethinking Architectural Design and the Built Environment]
