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Materials for Design
Victoria Ballard Bell, Patrick Rand
ISBN 9781568985589
Publication date 9/1/2006
8.5 x 11 inches (21.6 x 27.9 cm), Paperback
272 pages, 275 color illustrations, 250 b/w illustrations
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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 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.
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.
Victoria Ballard Bell is a licensed architect with Master's degree in urban planning and architecture from the University of Virginia. She is a Frederick P. Rose Architectural Fellow and lives and works in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and daughter.
Patrick Rand is a distinguished professor in the School of Architecture at North Carolina State University's College of Design.
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Editorial Reviews
Azure:
"Offers a well-illustrated compendium of the experimental leading edge. . . . Students will make good use of the book's technical side, and it should provide inspiration for anyone interested in contemporary building."
Architectural Record:
"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."
Architect Magazine:
"Required reading."
The Architect's Newspaper:
"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."
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