McQuaid, Matilda.

Extreme textiles : designing for high performance / Matilda McQuaid ; with essays by Philip Beesley ... [et al.] ; with contributions by Alyssa Becker, John W. S. Hearle. - New York : Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum : Princeton Architectural Press, c2005. - 223 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 29 cm.

Introduction: Stronger-- Faster--Lighter--Safer-- and Smarter--Matilda McQuaid-- Stronger: Title?; Susan Brown-- Faster: Eric Goetz,-- interview by Matilda McQuaid-- Lighter: A Transformed Architecture; Philip Beesley and Sean Hannah Safer: -- NASA: Advancing Ultra-Performance; Cara McCarty -- The Spacesuit; Amanda Young-- Smarter: Textiles from Novel Means of Innovation; Patricia Wilson-- Index --

156898507X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9781568985077

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Fibrous composites.
Textile fabrics.

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