Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction: The Task at Hand -- Chapter 1: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance -- Chapter 2: A Brief History of the Notion of Performance in Architecture -- Chapter 3: Non-Discrete Architectures -- Chapter 4: Non-Anthropocentric Architectures -- Chapter 5: Traits of Performance-Oriented Architecture -- Local Climate and Microclimate -- Material Performance -- The Active Architectural Boundary, the Articulated Envelope and Heterogeneous Environments -- The Extended Threshold -- Second-Degree Auxiliarity: Supplementary Architectures -- First-Degree Auxiliarity: Embedded Architectures -- Multiple Grounds and Settlement Patterns -- Chapter 6: The Road(s) Ahead -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- Picture Credits.