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- Dr. Arkin,
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- Regarding intelligent buildings, I think there was a book
- published by MIT Press in the early-mid 1970's called The
- Adaptive House, which discussed user-modifiable structures and
- (if my memory is correct) self-adapting structures and materials.
- I think there are still quite a few visionaries left in the
- Architecture and Urban Studies departments at MIT, so you might
- try to get in touch with them.
-
- There are also a small number of people concerned with
- Intelligent Materials, which are essentially adaptive materials
- that change their properties in response to changing environments
- (like the bones of most vertebrates). I don't know if this group
- includes architects and builders; unfortunately I don't have a
- good reference or contact for them.
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- Peter Cariani
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