Factors of Assessment of Buildings: architectural criticism, building performance evaluation, and habitability

High-profile projects promoted by governments, local municipalities, and the media do not always meet program requirements or user expectations. Interrogating perceived and measured quality inarchitecture this article establishes a responsive and unbiased discourse on these three paradigms: architectural criticism, building performance evaluation and habitability. This is taking place by acknowledging and revealing commonalities between the three and by instituting areas within the ontological agendas of each capable of supporting the diff erences. Nonetheless, one the one hand, contemporary architectural criticism appears to be in a continuous search for a role that seriously contributes to informing the architect directly or indirectly and consequently aff ect the work he or she produces. On the other hand, building performance evaluation seems to have developed into a mature area of research and an integral component of architecture in the academy as well as in professional practice. the theoretical underpinning of habitability incorporates sociocultural perspectives.Informed by anthropological and sociological theories, habitability considers the ways in which individuals or groups interact with and perceive their surroundings.The article aims is to reveal the history and evolution of three architectural criticism, building performance evaluation and habitability.

Factors of Assessment of Buildings: architectural criticism, building performance evaluation, and habitability Keywords:

architectural criticism , Assessment of Building , performance evaluation , habitability