Materials For Design – PDF/EPUB Version Downloadable

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 sections–glass, wood, metals, plastics, and concrete–Materials for Design makes a thorough study of each material’s properties, followed by a series of 10-12 case studies of that material put to imaginative use by today’s brightest architects from around the world.