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Title: Materials for Design
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication Date: 2006
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1568985584
ISBN 13: 9781568985589
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good
Weight: 2.566 pounds

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As architecture programs throughout the country break out of the classroom and adopt the holistic methods of design/build programs, the need for a textbook that bridges the gap between construction materials and design sensibility is sorely needed. Materials for Design is that book.

Students must be taught how a choice of material affects the form and look of a structure; they must also learn how inspired design can inject any material with true personality and zeal. Broken into five sectionsglass, wood, metals, plastics, and concreteMaterials for Design makes a thorough study of each material's properties, followed by a series of 1012 case studies of that material put to imaginative use by today's brightest architects from around the world.

There is no other textbook on the market that tackles material details so thoroughly while presenting lush, inspired color photographs, plan drawings, and detailed architectural diagrams.

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Offers a well-illustrated compendium of the experimental leading edge... it should provide inspiration for anyone interested in contemporary building. -- Azure, Oct. 2006

The authors impart a thorough knowledge of glass, wood, concrete, metal, and plastic. A weighty tome, the book is a reference tool, complete with histories, production techniques, and each material's properties, along with case studies of new work. In short, this is the textbook that many of us wish we had in architecture school. -- Architectural Record, August 2007

"Required reading." --Architect Magazine, September 2006

"This comprehensive guide contains 60 case studies of inventive materials. . . . Luscious photography is accompanied by detail drawings that are informative enough to make this a textbook." --The Architect's Newspaper, December 11, 2006

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