1st Edition

Smart Materials and Technologies For the Architecture and Design Professions

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    254 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    Chapter 1: Materials in Architecture and design
    Chapter 2: Fundamental Characterization of Materials
    Chapter 3: Energy Phenomena and environments
    Chapter 4: Types and Characteristics of Smart Materials
    Chapter 5: Elements and Control Systems
    Chapter 6: Smart Products
    Chapter 7: Smart Components, Assemblies and Systems in Architecture
    Chapter 8: Smart Environments
    Chapter 9: Revisiting the Design Context
    Bibliography
    Glossary
    Index

    Biography

    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.

    “[S]eeks to give architects and designers a better understanding of some of the breathtaking new technologies becoming available so that they can be applied to the best advantage. Addington and Schodek...want to make sure that these technologies are designed into buildings in a thoughtful way. Indeed, they spent 10 years researching and writing the book. The presentation is tailored to design professionals and includes equations and a fair amount of technical detail, but the authors don't get so far into the nitty-gritty as to go beyond what designers need to know. Smart Materials and Technologies fills a void in the literature and may help a great many designers and architects develop buildings that are more useful to an even greater number of occupants.” - Civil Engineering

    “This book, while offering a primer for understanding of materials, focusing particularly on contemporary materials, also promotes a revision of our thinking as design professionals.” - Journal of Architectural Education