Smart Materials and Technologies

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