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:
List of Contributors x
Preface: Paradigms of Performativity, as a Journey as destination in Today’s Design-Thinking
Mitra Kanaani
Foreword: ‘Unchained’
Brett Steele
Introduction: Performance Engrained
Michael U. Hensel
Prologue: Works at Work
David Leatherbarrow
1 Performances of Architectures and Environments: En Route to a Theory and Framework
Michael U. Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel
2 Social Performativity: Architecture’s Contribution to Societal Progress
Patrik Schumacher
3 Informing Form: The Influence of Morphogenesis and Performativity in Practice
Alvin Huang
4 Architecture of Change: Towards Transformable Architecture
Branko Kolarevic
5 Dynamic Aesthetics and Advanced Geometries: The Meaning of Style and Form-making in Performative Design
Andrew Whalley
6 The Paradoxes of Performative Architecture: Toward a New Discipline and a New Agenda for the Profession
Thomas Fisher
7 Poetics of Design Beyond Intelligences: The Meaning of Embodied Aesthetics and Simulation of Mood in Performative Design and Architecture
7.1 Poetics of Design: A House Is a Tree Is an Insect Is a Computer Is a Human
Mariana Ibañez
7.2 Poetics and More in Performative Architecture: Towards a Neuroscience of Dynamic Experience and Design
Michael A. Arbib
8 The Cognitive Dimension: The Role of Research in Performative Design Processes
8.1 The Theory
Mitra Kanaani
8.2 Theory Put into Research Practice
Joon-Ho Choi
9 Integrated Design Thinking: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Performative Design Methodology
9.1 The Theory
Marvin J. Malecha
9.2 Research Case Studies
Joon-Ho Choi
10 Performative Biotechnical Forms: Culturalizing the Microbiota from High-Tech to Bio-Tech Architecture
Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto
11 Searching for a “Bioclimatic Law” in Architecture: Comfort and the Ethics of (Human) Performance
William W. Braham
12 Ecological Emergences: The Milieu for Performative Paradigms
Caroline O’Donnell
13 Performative Urban Environments and the Concept of the Future Smart Cities
13. 1 The Posthuman City: Reflections on the City of the Near Future
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
13. 2 Toward Establishing Measures for Performative Urban Environments: A Critical Position on Shaping the Future of Smart Cities
Lucy Campbell, Mitra Kanaani, and Michael Stepner
14 Seeking Material Capacity and Embedded Responsiveness: Design and Fabrication of Physically Programmed Architectural Constructs
Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert
15 Resiliency in Performativity: A Shared Vision with Sustainability
15.1 Preamble
R.K. Stewart
15.2 Resiliency in Performativity: A Shared Vision with Sustainability
Terri Peters
16 Architectonic Design and Computation in Performative Buildings
Brady Peters
17 Simulation Tools for Social Performance: Immersive Building Simulation
Robert R. Neumayr
18 Performative Material Morphologies
Vera Parlac
19 Dynamic Vocabularies
19.1 Technology of Expressive, Communicative and Responsive Surface Architecture and Design of Building Skins and Enclosure System in Performative Design Forms
Michael Fox
19.2 Active Façade Tectonics: Sensing and Reacting to the Wicked, Complex Entanglements of Building Envelope Architecting
Douglas E. Noble
20 Energy Performative Architecture: Working with the Forces of Nature to Optimize Energy Flows and the Impact on Phenomenology of Architectural Form
Brian Cody
21 Adaptation: Bio-Receptive Materials with a New Outlook on Performativity and Sustainability
David Benjamin
22 Phenomenology of Interactivity: Patterns of Human Interaction with Urban Built Environments and the Impact of Computer Automation
Mitra Kanaani
23 The Cybernetics of Cybernetics: A Performative Idiom
Theodore Spyropoulos
24 Performative Design Strategies: The Synthesis Process of a Woven Complexity
Pieter de Wilde and Clarice Bleil de Souza
25 Design Sensibilities: Intangible and Qualitative Design Factors in Performative Design: Enactive Experience in the (Neuro)science of Form
Kristine Mun
26 Health and Wellbeing: Performance- Based Design Concepts for a Healthful Built Environment and Human Equilibrium
Dak Kopec
27 Reciprocal Relationships of Materiality and Human Engagement: Expanding the Role of Material Systems towards Sensorial Socio-Spatial Agency
Sean Ahlquist
28 Computing Performativity: The Role of Coding Within BIM for the Execution of Performative Design Concepts
Karen Kensek
29 Professional Practice and the Performative Delivery of Architecture: Precision, Prediction, Value
Phil Bernstein
30 Performing Architecture: A Reflection on the Rituals and Procedures of Practice
Kyle Miller
31 Educating Accountable Architects: The Future Performers
Ted Landsmark
Epilogue: Towards Responsibly Anticipatory Evolvable Architecture for the Anthropocene
Jim Dator
Index
About the Author :
Mitra Kanaani. D.Arch, MCP, FAIA, is the Professor of Design, Research and Tectonics and former Chair at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, San Diego. She is an editor and author, an activist with the Education Is Not a Crime and Education Under Fire movements and an Affiliated Global Faculty of the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) Architecture Program.
Review :
"This important collection of works grounds the debate on the capacity of a design to effect change as it performs assigned tasks. The convergence of views in the same volume provides a stimulating tempest of disagreements and contradictions, and therein lays its value. Here, performativity is a function of interdependencies, integration, interaction and responsiveness between tangible and intangible forces and entities. In some essays, the focus is on the natural, the human and the built. In others, it is on the world we create in all of its dimensions, or on abandoning a human-centric view altogether for an interconnected and interdependent systems perspective."
Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle, Professor of Architecture, Hampton University, Virginia
