Adaptive Architecture

Download or read book Adaptive Architecture written by Wolfgang F. E. Preiser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The constant in architecture's evolution is change. Adaptive Architecture explores structures, or environments that accommodate multiple functions at the same time, sequentially, or at periodically recurring events. It demonstrates how changing technological, economic, ecological and social conditions have altered the playing field for architecture from the design of single purpose structures to the design of interacting systems of synergistically interdependent, distributed buildings. Including contributors from the US, UK, Japan, Australia, Germany and South Africa, the essays are woven into a five-part framework which provides a broad and unique treatment of this important and timely issue.