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The Material of Invention
skiUs is shown to be not without value, but perts in différent areas, review the fundamental aspects of polymer sdence and give in the extrême will lead to stagnation and collapse in a rime of plenty. The remaining their views on the future of thèse areas. four sections are historical, analytical, play- The subjects treated in this book indude chain and step growth polymerization, ful, and technical appendix, respectively. The book itself is of high technical qual- mechanical properties, structure and propIn The Material of Invention, Ezio Manzini ity, illuminated with color and black-and- erties of elastomers, the glassy state, and attempts to communicate the complex inwhite photographs and sketches. Figures the morphology of crystalline polymers. terrelationship between design and mateappear on every page, but are only rarely The objective, according to the editors, is rials. As Professor of Architectural Techreferred to in the text. Rather, they contrib- "to provide the reader with a grounding nology at the Politecnico di Milano, he lives ute to the métis the author is trying to de- from which to expand," and the authors professionally in the borderland between velop in the reader by provoking thought hâve succeeded in providing some of the art and engineering. This book is the resuit and subtiy exerdsingrequisiteskiïls. Origi- basic concepts of thèse différent areas of of a research project aimed at creating critinaUy written in ItaUan, the book suffers polymer sdence dearly and concisely. As cal communication links between the dethe editors state, this text is "not meant to somewhat in translation, being somewhat signers, engineers, and researchers who heavy at rimes rather than joyful. I was dis- be an end unto itself rather it aims to be a are today creating the products of our culmeans to further eluddation in the field." tracted occasionally by odd constructions, ture. particularly in the early sections where ap- Indeed, the authors do not attempt to treat parently Uteral translation did not seem to the différent areas in any détail but do proIn the introduction, the author notes, do justice to the philosophical context. The vide the basic fundamentals. "Every object made by man is situated at middle and latter sections I found to be inthe intersection of Unes of development of This text should be quite useful to those thought (models, cultural structures, creasingly entrancing. While it quickly be- beginning study in polymer sdence, to forms of knowledge) with Unes of technocomes obvious that the author's préférence those needing a concise discussion of a parlogical development (availability of materiruns toward modem polymers and com- ticular aspect of polymers, or to those wantals, transformation techniques, forecasting posites, the treatment of metals, ceramics, ing a gênerai overview. Since this book origand control Systems)." Manzini fpeuses on and natural materials is fair. inated from a séries of lectures, it would the properties of materials as both a founOn the whole, I
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