Smart Materials and Technologies : For the Architecture and Design Professions

Addington, D. Michelle, Schodek, Daniel

ISBN 10: 0750662255 / ISBN 13: 9780750662253

Editore: Taylor & Francis Group, 2004

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Titolo: Smart Materials and Technologies : For the ...

Casa editrice: Taylor & Francis Group

Data di pubblicazione: 2004

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Michelle Addington is the Hines Professor of Sustainable Architectural Design at Yale University.

Daniel L. Schodek is the Kumagai Research Professor of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Design School, where he taught from 1969 until 2008.