Today, architects and designers are looking towards developments in new 'smart' or 'intelligent' materials and technologies, however, 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 solved this problem, incorporating all the relevant information on the latest technologies available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design go