Skins for Buildings – The Architect’s Materials Sample Book (BIS Publishers 2004) catalogues various surface materials and is an unsurpassed source of information on architectural surfaces for professionals.
Space and form have dominated architecture for a long time. nowadays, materiality has great currency in contemporary architecture an din architectural education. The choice of architectural materials has never been greater and architects use materials in innovative ways as never before. Skins for buildings catalogues 200 different surface materials in eight families: wood, natural stone, fired man-made stone, unfired man-made stone, glass, metal, plastics, and future materials.
Each individual sample material is shown on the right-hand pages via a very detailed, full-page and full-colour picture, which gives the reader the impression that he is standing right in the front of the actual material. On each opposite page the book shows examples of striking usage by architects and a description of the specific physical and sensory characteristics of the material. Each material family is introduced by an illustrated essay highlighting the general characteristics and history of the material as it is used in architecture.
– Skins for Buildings – The Architect’s Materials Sample Book (BIS Publishers, 2004), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with colour photographs of the material samples.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear.
