Architecture beyond criticism : Expert judgment and performance evaluation
Author
Additional Author(s)
Preiser, Wolfgang F. E.
Davis, Aaron T.
Salama, Ashraf M.
Hardy, Andrea
Publisher
New York: Routledge, 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781315740652
Series
Subject(s)
ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
BUILDINGS--PERFORMANCE
Notes
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Abstract
For the first time, this book demonstrates that the two paradigms of architectural criticism and performance evaluation can not only co-exist but complement each other in the assessment of built works.
As architecture takes more principled stances worldwide, from environmental sustainability to social, cultural, and economic activism, this book examines the roles of perceived and measured quality in architecture. By exploring in tandem both subjective traditional architectural criticism and environmental design and performance evaluation and its objective evaluation criteria, the book argues that both methodologies and outcomes can achieve a comprehensive assessment of quality in architecture.
