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Materials for Design
By Victoria Ballard Bell with Patrick Rand
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 book on the market that tackles material details so thoroughly while presenting lush, inspired color photographs, plan drawings, and detailed architectural diagrams.
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Imhoff, Dan: Paper or Plastic
The Corporation DVD
