The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture

Using Time to Craft an Enduring, Resilient and Relevant Architecture

Mitra Kanaani

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9780429664380
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

The Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture focuses on a non-linear, multilateral, ethical way of design thinking, positioning the design process as a journey. It expands on the multiple facets and paradigms of performative design thinking as an emerging trend in design methodology.

This edited collection explores the meaning of performativity by examining its relevance in conjunction with three fundamental principles: firmness, commodity and delight. The scope and broader meaning of performativity, performative architecture and performance-based building design are discussed in terms of how they influence today's design thinking.

With contributions from 44 expert practitioners, educators and researchers, this volume engages theory, history, technology and the human aspects of performative design thinking and its implications for the future of design.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Contributors
• Preface: Paradigms of Performativity, as a Journey as destination in Today’s Design-Thinking
• Foreword: ‘Unchained’
• Introduction: Performance Engrained
• Prologue: Works at Work
• 1. Performances of Architectures and Environments: En Route to a Theory and Framework
• 2. Social Performativity: Architecture’s Contribution to Societal Progress
• 3. Informing Form: The Influence of Morphogenesis and Performativity in Practice
• 4. Architecture of Change: Towards Transformable Architecture
• 5. Dynamic Aesthetics and Advanced Geometries: The Meaning of Style and Form-making in Performative Design
• 6. The Paradoxes of Performative Architecture: Toward a New Discipline and a New Agenda for the Profession
• 7. Poetics of Design Beyond Intelligences: The Meaning of Embodied Aesthetics and Simulation of Mood in Performative Design and Architecture
• 8. The Cognitive Dimension: The Role of Research in Performative Design Process
• 9. Integrated Design Thinking: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Performative Design Methodology
• 10. Performative Biotechnical Forms: Culturalizing the Microbiota from High-Tech to Bio-Tech Architecture
• 11. Searching for a “Bioclimatic Law” in Architecture Comfort and the Ethics of (Human) Performance
• 12. Ecological Emergences: The Milieu for Performative Paradigms
• 13. Performative Urban Environments and the Concept of the Future Smart Cities
• 14. Seeking Material Capacity and Embedded Responsiveness: Design and Fabrication of Physically Programmed Architectural Constructs
• 15. Resiliency in Performativity: A Shared Vision with Sustainability
• 16. Architectonic Design and Computation in Performative Buildings
• 17. Simulation Tools for Social Performance: Immersive Building Simulation
• 18. Performative Material Morphologies
• 19 Dynamic Vocabularies
• 20. Energy Performative Architecture: Working with the Forces of Nature to Optimize Energy Flows and the Impact on Phenomenology of Architectural Form
• 21. Adaptation: Bio-Receptive Materials with a New Outlook on Performativity and Sustainability
• 22. Phenomenology of Interactivity: Patterns of Human Interaction with Urban Built Environments and the Impact of Computer Automation
• 23. The Cybernetics of Cybernetics: A Performative Idiom
• 24. Performative Design Strategies: The Synthesis Process of a Woven Complexity
• 25. Design Sensibilities: Intangible and Qualitative Design Factors in Performative Design: Enactive Experience in the (Neuro) Science of Form
• 26. Health and Wellbeing: Performance-Based Design Concepts for a Healthful Built Environment and Human Equilibrium
• 27. Reciprocal Relationships of Materiality and Human Engagement Expanding the Role of Material Systems towards Sensorial Socio-Spatial Agency
• 28. Computing Performativity: The Role of Coding Within BIM for the Execution of Performative Design Concepts
• 29. Professional Practice and the Performative Delivery of Architecture: Precision, Prediction, Value
• 30. Performing Architecture: A Reflection on the Rituals and Procedures of Practice
• 31. Educating Accountable Architects: The Future Performers
• Epilogue Towards Responsibly Anticipatory Evolvable Architecture for the Anthropocene
• Index