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Fusion: The Performance Of Architecture
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Fusion: The Performance of Architecture explores the work of awardwinning, Bostonbased architecture firm Payette, a leader in the design of complex settings for science and healthcare.Payettes work embodies the integration of design and performance that is essential to the creation of humane and sustainable buildings of any type. To achieve this integration amidst the programmatic intricacy, technological complexity, and intense energy use of hospitals and laboratories, the firm draws on its almost ninetyyear history of progressive innovation. It draws, as well, on an inclusive, collaborative, researchoriented culture that is a model for the profession.Fusion presents Payettes philosophy and traces the firms contributions through concise histories of laboratory and hospital design. It explores the core principles that underlie its work Identity and Transformation, Materiality and Craft, Taming Complexity and Measuring Performance and digs deeply into seven of the firms most recent projects. Other chapters describe the process of nurturing the design excellence and practice culture that earned Payette the 2019 AIA Architecture Firm Award.The monographs 400 diagrams, drawings, and photographs reveal the firms principles and methods, along with the opensource tools it has developed to enable it to design, not by the numbers, but with the numbers. A gallery of architectural fingerprints presents plan views of more than 100 of Payettes projects, drawn to a common scale.With a preface by Z Smith, Director of Sustainability and Building Performance at EskewDumezRipple, and an introduction from Kevin Sullivan, President of Payette, Fusion includes essays by Sullivan and partners James Collins, George Marsh, Leon Drachman, Andrea Love and Peter Vieira, as well as a critical reflection by Mark Lee, Chair of the Department of Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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