provides comprehensive, accurate information about the basic materials with which designers work on a daily basis, as well as a complete breakdown of new and exciting developments in high-tech materials.This book is organized into six main sections on all the major design material groups: Metal, Plastic, Wood, Plant, Animal, and Mineral.

A handy reference to the most interesting and useful new materials now available. (also in print: TA403.6 .B76 2006)

A carefully edited resource that provides information about the latest and most intriguing materials commercially available.

The third volume in the series presents over two hundred emergent materials, products, and systems that have significant potential to transform the constructed world.

Organized by types of materials and applications, this guide helps designers successfully address material evaluation and selection of interior components.

Introduces each material type--glass, concrete, wood, metal, plastic, and stone--with text describing its history and significance. Accessible case studies highlight recent advances in design and construction around the world.
(also in print: NA4100 .B454 2014 )

Addresses the rapid development of material research and the significance of sustainable and intelligent materials in design and architecture.

This book is an essential reference for understanding the environmental impact of materials, manufacturing processes, and product life cycles, and is also a guide on how to select and use them in an intelligent way.

This work demonstrates the alternatives to modern building materials. Topics discussed include whether environmentally-friendly chemicals can be used and whether the make-up of building materials can be altered so that individual components can be re-used.

This book focuses on various issues that human beings face and by discussing potential materials-related solutions. Through the lens of intriguing projects by designers, artists, makers, and scientists, it presents ideas, technologies, and creative efforts that focus on the earth's most basic elements, while also showing how these elements can be transformed into entirely new materials.

This book traces the history of plywood from its use in eighteenth-century furniture, through its emergence as an industrial product in the nineteenth century, to a material celebrated by twentieth-century modernists such as Alvar Aalto and Charles and Ray Eames.

Materiology is directed at all those who are interested in materials and in working with materials: from architects, production designers, and stylists to artists. Offers an overview of the different kinds, processing, and use of materials.

Metals introduces each application as well as interviews with the designers and manufacturers. Examples are featured from the areas of packaging, product design, and architecture.

Features interesting facts on 77 plastic products and materials, a table of physical and chemical properties for plastics, a website directory, and key properties of each featured material.

Beyond pottery, the universe of ceramics encompesses bricks and concrete, automotive components, watch mechanisms and the tiles on space shuttles. This book includes a diverse range of high- and low-tech applications.

Documents a selection of current international projects and processes, making-ofs, and experiments by 120 internationally renowned designers, architects, and artists, whose creative and innovative approach to the material makes their work compelling. A section dedicated to materials and technologies examines innovative developments as well as wood, wood-based materials, finishing technologies, and wooden structure principles.