Responsive Architecture, Performing Instruments
Situated Technologies Pamphlets 4: Responsive Architecture, Performing Instruments — Authors: Philip Beesley, Omar Khan. From the Editors:
This volume of the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series discusses key qualities of “responsive” architecture, a framing that understands it to be a performing instrument. A new generation of architecture that responds to building occupants and environmental factors has embraced distributed technical systems as a means and end for developing more mutually enriching relationships between people, the space they inhabit, and the environment. In contrast to wide optimism about this new kinetic, interactive technology, this conversation examines responsiveness as mutable and contestable. Continue reading