TY - BOOK AU - Yomna Saad Elghazi AU - Aly Hatem Gabr , AU - Tarek Abdelraouf Mohamed , TI - Building skins in the age of information technology / PY - 2009/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yomna Saad Elghazi , KW - Building skins KW - Dynamic forms KW - Intelligent skins N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Engineering - Department of Architectural Engineering; Issued also as CD N2 - As a principle element of architecture technology has allowed for the wall to become an increasingly dynamic component of the built environment.The traditional connotations and objectives related to the wall are being redefined: static becomes fluid opaque becomes transparent barrier becomes filter and boundary becomes borderless ER -