COMPARISON OF META

AND PERFORMATIVE
RUTHVIK KS
WHAT IS META ARCHITECTURE?

META is a movement for meta-architecture that tries to convey its vision on

architecture through building.
META stands for renewed interest in the building process, interest for
architecture itself.
META wants to make architecture that rises above the ordinary, from real
practical issues without theoretical waste of time.
META loves difficult clients with high demands and a clear vision.
META doesn’t think aimlessly and time consuming, neither does it rush its
actions.
META negotiates.
META tries to rewrite all the data into one story without worrying about
expensive and complicated trends.
META builds in one action.
Timeless.
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WHAT IS PERFORMATIVE ARCHITECTURE?
Performative architecture is an architecture using digital technologies to
challenge the way the built environment is designed.
People move – Architecture stops. People desire – space defines. The
designer as a spatial programmer collects movements and desires and
releases them into the conception of building. (Anderson, 2011)
Building performance is a guiding design principle as an emerging
approach to architecture. Buildings are often viewed as objects that:
• Result from design and construction techniques
• Represent various practices and ideas.
The building's characteristics are a reflection between the materials and to
how they create the flexibility to the performance, instead of being a
building that creates no movement visually or through. Both visually and
structurally, the building is moving; the building complements the
performance.
EXAMPLES
Kunsthaus Graz Museum
Kunsthaus Graz Museum is an
example of an on-stage theatrical
architectural performance. Peter
Cook, Colin Fournier have blurred the
boundaries of design and technology
to achieve performance. Within the
main theme of performative
architecture, the Graz Museum
performs visually and functionally. The designers have identified the project’s theme called ‘up into the
The two main features of the building unknown’ when curiosity about the unknown becomes the building’s key
highlighting its theatrical point of attraction. There is an apparent strong link between the Kunsthaus
performance are: the spaceship-like Graz and the utopian architecture of the 1960’s and the discussion about
form and BIX communicative display. free-formed “blobs”. This discussion was followed by the presentation of
This exhibition provides explanatory biomorphic forms in the designs of the early 1990’s with dominant focus on
literal movement. Leading projects of this historical development include
information that link Kunsthaus
Fiedrich Kiesler’s Endless House (1959) and Walking City (1964) by
Graz’s design to performative Archigram, of which Peter Cook was a member.
architecture.