Research Catalog

Title

Fusion : the performance of architecture / Payette ; foreword by Z Smith ; introduction by Kevin B. Sullivan.

Author

Payette Associates, author.

Publication

• New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2020]
• ©2020

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Z
• Sullivan, Kevin
• Collins, James H., Jr.
• Marsh, George E., Jr.
• Drachman, Leon W.
• Love, Andrea
• Vieira, Peter F., Jr.
• Lee, Mark

Description

311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map, plans (some color); 28 cm

Summary

Fusion: The Performance of Architecture explores the integration of high design and performance as the two drivers creating architecture that is rational, humane, and beautiful. The recipient of the 2019 AIA Architecture Firm Award, Payette embodies practices that are crucial to bettering our built environment. Founded eighty-five years ago, the hospitals and laboratories that Payette has designed introduced advances that continue through today, while never compromising on aesthetic and use value. With primary sections illuminating core principles of the firm -- Identity and Transformation, Materiality and Craft, Taming Complexity, and Measuring Performance -- the book presents detailed portraits of recent projects that manifest these principles. Sympathetic to their cultural settings, incorporating nature, socially rich, and legibly ordered, these projects stand as models not only for the state of the art of hospital and laboratory architecture, but also for how architecture improves people's lives every day. Rooted in the conviction that beautiful buildings should perform beautifully -- not just in environmental and use terms, but also socially and culturally -- Payette in this book provides insight into how dispelling the artificial dichotomy between performance and design creates a holistic architecture for the twenty-first century.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Architecture, Modern > 21st century
• Architecture, Modern

Contents

Foreword / Z. Smith -- The fusion of design and performance / Kevin B. Sullivan -- The art of science / James H. Collins, Jr. -- The hospital as a small city / George E. Marsh, Jr. -- Project stories. Northeastern University -- Tufts University -- Hengqin Island -- Amherst College -- Penn State Health -- George Washington University -- Boston University -- Values. Taming complexity / Kevin B. Sullivan -- Building campus: identity and transformation / Leon W. Drachman -- Measuring performance / Andrea Love -- Materiality and craft / Peter F. Vieira, Jr. -- Inside out upside down: form as performance / Mark Lee -- Fingerprints -- Culture at Payette.

Call Number

JQF 21-479

ISBN

• 9781580935340
• 1580935346

LCCN

2019955244

OCLC

1151886167

Author

Payette Associates, author.

Title

Fusion : the performance of architecture / Payette ; foreword by Z Smith ; introduction by Kevin B. Sullivan.

Publisher

New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Added Author

Smith, Z, writer of foreword.

Sullivan, Kevin, writer of introduction, contributor.

Collins, James H., Jr., contributor.

Marsh, George E., Jr., contributor.

Drachman, Leon W., contributor.

Love, Andrea, contributor.

Vieira, Peter F., Jr., contributor.

Lee, Mark, contributor.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-479