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About this book
These days, whether you're designing a building or a toaster, a savvy knowledge of materials is increasingly critical. And keeping up with the constant flow of new materials, let alone their applications, properties, and sources, is an increasingly difficult and time-consuming task. Blaine Erickson Brownell, author of Transmaterial, known to thousands of web users for his "product of the week" email service alerting designers to new materials that are reshaping our world, has created this handy and affordable reference to the most interesting and most useful new materials now available.
Transmaterial is indexed in multiple ways for the sake of maximum convenience, and utilizes the new CSI Master- Format 2004 product categorization system. With more than 200 materials, organized by category, described, pictured, and annotated with technical and sourcing information, this catalog is an essential tool for any architect or designer interested in keeping up with the rapid developments in the field of materials, looking for a source of inspiration for their designs, or just eager to get their hands on real materials in an effort to understand the incredibly innova-tive palette now available to us.
About the authors
Blaine E. Brownell is an architect, sustainable building advisor, and a researcher of materials based in Seattle. Educated at Princeton and Rice Universities, he is an advocate of harnessing the latest materials expertise to transform the way we make buildings and products.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Transmaterial
Book Subtitle: A Catalog of Materials that Redefine our Physical Environment
Editors: Blaine Brownell
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-56898-655-6
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press New York, NY
eBook Packages: Architecture and Design, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Princeton Architectural Press 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 224
Number of Illustrations: 800 illustrations in colour
Topics: Architecture, general, Design, general