Performative architecture :  beyond instrumentality / 
edited by Branko Kolarevic & Ali M. Malkawi. 
 - New York :  Spon Press,  2005. 
 - v, 266 p. :  ill. (some col.) ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes index 
<br/><br/>Architecture's unscripted performance / David Leatherbarrow -- Product and process : performance-based architecture / Andrew Whalley -- Sustainable design : an American perspective / Mahadev Raman -- Biotechniques : remarks on the intensity of conditioning /  William Braham -- Performance form / Thomas Herzog -- Performance simulation : research and tools / Ali M. Malkawi -- A framework for rational building performance dialogues / Godfried Augenbroe -- Engineering complexity : performance-based design in use / Craig Schwitter -- Engineering in a performative environment / Jean-Francois Blassel -- Non-standard structural design for non-standard architecture / Harald Kloft -- Communicative display skin for buildings : Bix at the Kunsthaus Graz / Jan Edler -- The structure of vagueness / Lars Spuybroeck -- Performativity : beyond efficiency and optimization in architecture / Ali Rahim -- Computing the performative / Branko Kolarevic -- Towards the performative in architecture / Branko Kolarevic -- Performance (and performers) : in search of direction (and a director) / Peter McCleary -- Conceptual performativity -- Operative performativity. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0415700833 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0203536851 (ebook) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2004014235 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Buildings--Performance.<br/>Buildings--Energy conservation.<br/>Architecture--Decision making.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>720.9421