Product Description: Textiles connect a variety of practices and traditions, ranging from the refined couture garments of Parisian fashion to the high-tech filaments strong enough to hoist a satellite into space. High-performance fabrics are being reconceived as immersive webs, structural networks and information exchanges, and their ability to interface with technology is changing how the human body is experienced and how the urban environment is built...read more

A classified evaluation of the intelligent substances, surfaces, and interfaces being used in the modern world's clothing, constructions, and technologies features coverage of four hundred significant materials, in a visual guide complemented by a designer directory and lists of professional organizations.