Performance Based Envelopes: A Theory of Spatialized Skins and the Emergence of the Integrated Design Professional

Realigning the design of building envelopes within the measures of air, light and heat has rendered possible an inventive form of practice whose benefits are far in excess of the metrics of data and analysis. For many of its most advanced practitioners, the contemporary design of facades engages the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Franca Trubiano
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2013-10-01
Series:Buildings
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2075-5309/3/4/689