Skins For Buildings: The Architect's Materials Sample Book

by David Keuning, Ed Melet, Caroline Kruit

Skins for Buildings is a visual atlas featuring 200 of the most important types of surface materials used in contemporary architecture. It illustrates the visual and sensory impact of each of these different types of material in individual, large-format color photographs which could be considered virtual samples. Accompanying each sample are striking photographs of finished buildings that showcase the various ways in which leading international architects have put the materials to use. Materials featured have been divided into 8 families of Wood, Natural Stone, Fired Man-made Stone, Unfired Man-made Stone, Metal, Plastic, Glass and New Materials, and within each family there is an inventory to pure materials, additives and composites.

Hardcover

Published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[Kyla · Rating 5 out of 5]

Must -own - this - book. Costs $250. Will return to stroking it covetously at the library. Full page scans of wood grains, cement samples and plastics. That's it. Amazing.

[Elfreda yao · Rating 5 out of 5]

must-owned book for skin design ,but reallllly expensive ==