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Performative Urbanism: An Emerging Model of the Gulf
Author(s) -
Katodrytis George
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1862
Subject(s) - performative utterance , desert (philosophy) , urbanism , george (robot) , climate change , arid , architecture , desert climate , environmental ethics , ecology , landscape architecture , environmental resource management , geography , history , environmental science , archaeology , aesthetics , political science , art , art history , philosophy , law , biology
With the largest stretch of desert sand in the world, the UAE has an extreme climate and arid ecology. Previous to the postwar discovery of oil in the region, the built environment developed with low or no energy to be responsive to extreme climatic changes. Guest‐Editor George Katodrytis looks at the ways that a more performative approach might be employed in contemporary architecture to make it more culturally and climatically relevant.