TY  - BOOK
AU  - Menges,Achim
TI  - Versatility and Vicissitude: performance in morpho-ecological design / 
T2  - Architectural Design
SN  - 9780470516874
U1  - 720.05 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - London : 
PB  - John Wiley & Sons, 
KW  - lemb
KW  - Arquitectura
KW  - Arquitectura sustentable
N1  - Introduction: versatility and vicissitude an introduction to performance in morpho-ecological design / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
Form, force and structure: a brief history / Remo Pedreschi
Form, force, performance: multi-parametric structural design / Klaus Bollinger, Manfred Grohmann and Oliver Tessmann
Metabolism and morphology / Michael Weinstock
Material performance / Michael Hensel, Defne Sunguroğlu and Achim Menges
Manufacturing performance / Achim Menges
Performance-oriented design: precursors and potentials / Michael Hensel
Inclusive performance: efficiency versus effectiveness towards a morpho-ecological approach for design / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
Complex brick assemblies / Defne Sunguroğlu
Membrane spaces / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
Aggregates / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
Environmental intensifiers / Aleksandra Jaeschke
Engineering ecologies / Peter Trummer
Designing morpho-ecologies: versatility and vicissitude of heterogeneous space / Michael Hensel and Achim Menges
Interior eye: Craftsteak, New York / Jayne Merkel
Building profile: public toilet, Gravesend / David Littlefield
Practice profile: m3architecture / Mark Taylor
Unit factor: renewable types and the urban plan / Christopher Lee, and Sam Jacoby
Spiller's bits: in praise of the blur / Neil Spiller
Yeang's eco-files; recharging your bio-batteries with a can of Coke / Ken Yeang
McLean's nuggets / Will McLean
Userscape: the social call / Valentina Croci
Site lines: making waves at East Beach Café / Howard Watson; Arquitectura
N2  - "This book shifts the morpho-ecological design project into the realm of performance. Whereas the dictionary definition of performance - to 'carry out an action' or 'to fulfill a task' - invokes a tired utilitarian debate, Hensel and Menges inject the meaning of the word 'performance' with an entirely new life. This volume presents historical precursors and precedents for this approach, as well as the current state of the art of morpho-ecological design."
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