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	Performative Architecture: Beyond Instrumentality Author: Branko Kolarevic and Ali M. Malkawi, editors Publisher: Spon Press Year: 2005 ISBN 0415700833
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This book describes a new kind of architecture, in which broadly defined building performance is a guiding design principle more important than form making. These architects use quantitative and qualitative performance-based digital simulations, intent on redefining expectations of design and its process and practice.

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