Today; architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new"smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problemsin building design. However; these new materials have so far been applied in a diversebut largely idiosyncratic nature; because relatively few architects have access toinformation about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved thisproblem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologiesavailable to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials bydescribing their fundamental characteristics; and go on to identify and suggest howthese same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their designgoals. Here; the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materialsscience and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.
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