Performative Materials in Architecture and Design

Per­for­ma­tive Ma­te­rials in Ar­chi­tec­ture and De­sign ad­dress­es the con­ver­gence of sev­er­al sig­ni­f­i­cant and fun­da­men­tal ad­vance­ments in the ways that ma­te­rials and en­vi­ron­ments are de­signed, eval­u­at­ed, and ex­pe­ri­ences within ar­chi­tec­ture and re­lat­ed dis­ci­p­lines. The emer­gence of ex­per­i­men­tal and ul­tra-per­form­ing ma­te­rials, in­ter­ac­tive pro­cess­ing sys­tems, and dig­i­tal de­sign and fab­ri­ca­tion tech­niques has estab­lished an in­ter­con­nect­ed net­work or tech­no­log­i­cal in­puts that has sti­m­u­lat­ed the de­vel­op­ment of ma­te­rials, as­sem­blies, and sys­tems with per­for­ma­tive prop­er­ties. Pro­vid­ing an overview of rep­re­sen­ta­tive de­sign pro­jects and rel­e­vant the­o­ries, this vol­ume il­lu­mi­nates both the in­ter­ac­tion of th­ese tech­nolo­gies and the role of ma­te­rial­i­ty in re­search, de­sign, and prac­tice.