[PDF] Material Revolution eBook

Author : Sascha Peters
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 21,20 MB
Release : 2014-02-24
Category : Design
ISBN : 3038210021

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Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials new to the market since 2010. The significance of sustainable and intelligent materials in design and architecture has increased enormously over the last two years. Numerous new products have been introduced to the market and designers’ thirst for knowledge about the sustainability of new material is as strong as ever, making a sequel to Material Revolution necessary. The new volume contains a similar system of classification but covers a completely different range of materials. There is a chapter dedicated solely to the criteria and factors of sustainable product design, as well as to innovative projects by designers and architects that work with new materials and technologies.

Author : Sascha Peters
Publisher : Birkhauser
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,60 MB
Release : 2011-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783034606639

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'Material Revolution' offers a systematic overview of the currently available sustainable materials and provides the reader with all the information he needs to assess a new material's suitability and potential for a given project.

Author : Skylar Tibbits
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 39,24 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0691189714

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From the visionary founder of the Self-Assembly Lab at MIT, a manifesto for the dawning age of active materials Things in life tend to fall apart. Cars break down. Buildings fall into disrepair. Personal items deteriorate. Yet today's researchers are exploiting newly understood properties of matter to program materials that physically sense, adapt, and fall together instead of apart. These materials open new directions for industrial innovation and challenge us to rethink the way we build and collaborate with our environment. Things Fall Together is a provocative guide to this emerging, often mind-bending reality, presenting a bold vision for harnessing the intelligence embedded in the material world. Drawing on his pioneering work on self-assembly and programmable material technologies, Skylar Tibbits lays out the core, frequently counterintuitive ideas and strategies that animate this new approach to design and innovation. From furniture that builds itself to shoes printed flat that jump into shape to islands that grow themselves, he describes how matter can compute and exhibit behaviors that we typically associate with biological organisms, and challenges our fundamental assumptions about what physical materials can do and how we can interact with them. Intelligent products today often rely on electronics, batteries, and complicated mechanisms. Tibbits offers a different approach, showing how we can design simple and elegant material intelligence that may one day animate and improve itself—and along the way help us build a more sustainable future. Compelling and beautifully designed, Things Fall Together provides an insider's perspective on the materials revolution that lies ahead, revealing the spectacular possibilities for designing active materials that can self-assemble, collaborate, and one day even evolve and design on their own.

Author : Tom Forester
Publisher : Mit Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262560436

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Discusses the development of superconductivity, high performance plastics, ceramics, fabrics, optical fibers, and new manufacturing processes

Author : Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 19,98 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1009433245

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Presents a compelling analysis of the psychology of revolution for the first time since 1894.

Author : Mark Steel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 2003
Category : France
ISBN : 0743208056

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For most of us, the French Revolution has been reduced to jokes about Marie-Antoinette, guillotines and the Scarlet Pimpernel. But for Mark Steel, bestselling author of REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, the French Revolution was one of the most inspirational moments in human history - a moment when ordinary people changed the world and became extraordinary. It deserves better jokes than that. In this revolutionary new book, Steel banishes stuffiness from history, telling us what happened in France between the storming of the Bastille and the rise of Napoleon, bringing to life the people who made them happen. His account is dominated by bizarre events and splendid characters, from the famously odd Robespierre, Danton and Thomas Paine, to the less well known Drouet, the local postman who arrested the fleeing King because he recognised him as the man off of the money. VIVE LA REVOLUTION is an uproariously serious work of history - brilliantly funny and insightful, it puts the peculiarity of individual people back at the centre of the story.

Author : Sascha Peters
Publisher : Birkhauser Architecture
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783038214762

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Following the huge success of Material Revolution, this second volume addresses the rapid development of material research and presents materials new to the market since 2010.The new volume contains a similar system of classification but covers a completely different range of materials.

Author : Skylar Tibbits
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 36,39 MB
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Design
ISBN : 0691170339

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"A short, provocative manifesto for the programmable materials revolution from the visionary founder of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab"--

Author : Dirk E. Hebel
Publisher : Birkhäuser
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 18,92 MB
Release : 2017-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 303560892X

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NEXT GENERATION BUILDING MATERIALS The 21st century faces a radical change in how we produce construction materials – a shift towards cultivating, breeding, raising, farming, or growing future resources. This book presents innovative industrialized production methods for cultivated building materials, like cement grown by bacteria, bricks made of mushroom mycelium, or bamboo fibers as reinforcement for concrete. Spanning from scientific research to product development and architectural application, this book builds a bridge between the academic and the professional world of architecture. The book describes the challenges, strategies, and goals in the first part, followed by a second part on bamboo, A cultivated building material and a number of examples in the third part which form the bridge from cultivated materials to building products.