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M. Hensel, D. Sunguroglu Hensel:
"Performances of Architectures and Environments - En Route to a Theory and Framework";
in: "The Routledge Companion to Performativity in Design and Architecture: Using Time to Craft an Enduring, Resilient and Relevant Architecture", M. Kanaani (ed.); Routledge, New York, 2020, ISBN: 9780367076191, 1 - 12.

Our take on questions of architecture and performance is rooted in a linked environmental and cultural ethic and endeavor: its aim is to improve on the relation between architecture and environment, while basing this approach wherever possible on locally specific cultural practices. As construction impacts upon our planet at a momentous rate, consuming in the process vast amounts of resources in terms of surface area, material, energy and impacting massively on the bio-physical environment, we pose two related questions: [i] can architecture be in the service of the bio-physical environment; and, by extension, [ii] can architecture principally be conceived of as not in conflict with, but rather as an embedded part of its local bio-physical environment. This chapter examines what this may involve.

Architecture; Environment; Performance;

http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429021640-1

https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Paradigms-of-Performativity-in-Design-and-Architecture/Kanaani/p/book/9780367076191