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Smart materials and new technologies: for the architecture and design professions

By Michelle Addington , Daniel L. Schodek

Book information

Publisher
Architectural Press
Year
2005
ISBN
9780750662253, 0750662255
Open Library ID
OL18391742M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4943989 bytes)
Pages
255\255
Topic
Medicine
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Today, architects and designers are looking towards developments in new 'smart' or 'intelligent' materials and technologies, however, 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, incorporating all the relevant information on 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 go

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