Performalism : form and performance in digital architecture / edited by Yasha J. Grobman and Eran Newman

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : Theory and essays -- 1. Performalism : a manifesto for architecture performance / Eran Neuman and Yasha J. Grobman --
2. The various dimensions of the concept of "performance" in architecture / Yasha J. Grobman --
3. Architecture as performative art / Antoine Picon --
4. Performing the contemporary, or, Towards an even newer architecture / Sylvia Lavin --
5. Informationaism : 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-oriented design from a material perspective : domains of agency and the spatial and material organization complex / Michael U. Hensel --
9. Performalism or performance-based design? / Martin Bechthold. The architectural projects. Eisenman Architects : the implications of performalism / Peter Eisenman --
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11. Greg Lynn FORM : the immeasurability of cultural performance / Greg Lynn --
12. Preston Scott Cohen, Inc. : architectural acrobatics / Preston Scott Cohen --
13. Archi-Tectonics : meaning-form : a performative architecture / Winka Dubbeldam --
14. Contemporary Architecture Practice : performance and contemporary architecture practice / Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle --
15. R & Sie(n) : "(un)postures" / François Roche and Anna Neimark --
16. KOL/MAC Architecture : form never followed function / Sulan Kolatan and William Mac Donald --
17. Gehry Partners, LLP/Gehry Technologies : performance of delivery systems / Dennis R. Shelden and Sameer Kashyap --
18. Franken Archtekten : performancer / Bernhard Franken --
19. OCEAN : OCEAN design research association / Jeffrey P. Turko, Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel, and Birger Sevaldson --
20. Open Source Architecture : intensity, extensity, and potentiality : architecture and the informed reality / Aaron Sprecher --
21. Gramazio & Kohler : digital materiality / Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler --
22. Reiser + Umemoto : architecture performing itself / Jesse Reiser and Nanako Umemoto --
23. Foster + Partners : perform : performance as producer of architectural form / Guedi Capeluto and Abraham Yezioro.

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 geometry. Yet, the questions concerning the method of form expression in contemporary architecture, and its meaning, remain very much open. Performalism takes up this discussion, defines it and presents changes in form conception in architecture, followed by their repercussions. The book is supported by a wealth of case studies from some of the top firms across the globe and contributed to by some of the top names in this field. With a unique and insightful emphasis on professional practice this is essential reading for all architects, aspiring and practicing.