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

✍ Scribed by Michelle Addington, Daniel L. Schodek

Book ID
127433392
Publisher
Architectural Press
Year
2005
Tongue
English
Weight
5 MB
Category
Library
City
Amsterdam; Boston
ISBN
0750662255

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✦ Synopsis

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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