Extreme textiles
Subtitle: designing for high performance
By: Matilda McQuaid ; with essays by Philip Beesley ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Alyssa Becker, John W. S. Hearle [and the] Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Contributors: Beesley, Philip.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Fibrous composites
Description: "Featuring examples of fully realized products from all classes of technical textiles--architectural, product design, apparel, medicine, transportation, aerospace, industry, and the environment--Extreme Textiles highlights successful collaborations between design, industry, and science. Large, full-color illustrations and essays by some of today's most influential designers and scientists trace the extraordinary developments made in textiles over the last twenty years and suggest what is to come"--Back cover.
Notes: Includes index.