Material Architecture: Emergent Materials for Innovative Buildings and Ecological Construction.
New York: Architectural Press, 2008. Reprint of 2006 edition. Color Pictorial Wraps. Small quarto, pp. ix, 332, indexed, illustrated with b/w and color photographs. As New. Item #22617
Composed of a series of essays, this book deals with the broad issues affecting the nature of architectural materials and provides a focused review of state of the art materials. It provides designers with the tools they need to evaluate and select from the thousands of different options available to them. All of this practical advice is given along with many real case examples illustrating how this knowledge and information has been, and can be, used in architectural design.
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