Smart Materials and Technologies: For the Architecture and Design Professions

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 sol...