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Performalism: Form and Performance in Digital Architecture book cover

1st Edition

Performalism Form and Performance in Digital Architecture

Edited By Yasha Grobman, Eran Neuman Copyright 2012
224 Pages 300 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 300 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 300 Color Illustrations
by Routledge
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Today, with the advent of digital media technologies and the ability to conceptualize, express and produce complex forms using digital means, the question of the status of the architectural form is once again under consideration. Indeed, the computer liberated architecture from the tyranny of the right angle and enabled the design and production of non-standard buildings, based on irregular... Read more

1. Performalism: A Manifesto for Architectural Performance Eran Neuman and Yasha Grobman  2. The Various Dimensions of the Concept of 'Performance' in Architecture Yasha Grobman  3. Architecture as Performative Art Antoine Picon  4. Performing the Contemporary, Or: Towards an Even Newer Architecture Sylvia Lavin  5. Informationism. Information as Architectural Performance Aaron Sprecher  6. The Collapsing of Technological Performance and the Subject's Performance Eran Neuman  7. High Performance Anxiety Christopher Hight  8. Performance-Orientated Design from a Material Perspective: Domains of Agency and the Spatial and Material Organisation Complex Michael U. Hensel  9. Performalism or Performance-Based Design? Martin Bechthold  10.  Eisenman Architects  11. GLForm  12. Preston Scott Cohen  13. Archi-Techtonics  14. Contemporary Architecture Practice  15. R&Sie(n)  16. Kol /Mac LLC  17. Gehry Partners , LLP / Gehry Technologies  18. Franken Architekten  19. OCEAN  20. Open Source Architecture  21. Gramazio & Kohler  22. RUR  23. Foster + Partners  24. Project Credits  Index

Biography

Yasha J. Grobman is an architect and a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. He is principal and co-founder of Axelrod Grobman Architects. He holds a Master of Architecture from the Architectural Association Design Research Laboratory (DRL), and a PhD from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. His research and practice focuses on digital architecture and performance-oriented architectural design and manufacturing.

Eran Neuman is an architect and the head of the Azrieli School of Architecture at Tel Aviv University. He is co-founder of Open Source Architecture, an international architectural research and design office. His research focuses on the history, theory and philosophy of modern architecture, in particular the influence of science and technology on architecture, digital architecture, architectural representations and design methodologies.

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