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_Smart_Materials and_Technologies-_For the_Architecture and_Design_Professions

_Smart_Materials and_Technologies-_For the_Architecture and_Design_Professions

  • Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new
    "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems
    in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse
    but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to
    information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.
    Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved this
    problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies
    available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by
    describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how
    these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design
    goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials
    science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.
  • 254 pages
Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new
“smart” or “intelligent” materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems
in building design. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse
but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to
information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.
Two of the leading experts in this field – Addington and Schodek – have solved this
problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies
available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by
describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how
these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design
goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials
science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.

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