Nanoscience and nanotechnology in Architecture May 2014 1 Alexandria University Faculty of Engineering Department of Architecture Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Architecture Samar Z. Allam Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University, Egypt Samar.allam@gmail.com – samarzain85@gmail.com Abstract Future has taken a great concern of scientists and architects as well. New Discoveries and new Technologies are emerging with no limits. Scientists looks far in spaces .Though, they have focused closer and closer through atoms. Scientists have reached close enough to one billionth of a meter in Nanoscience, a new science that is growing with progress to be applied into many fields and applications like Pharmacy, electronics, medicine, and nevertheless to materials. The task for architects today, is to seize hold of new technologies, judiciously apply them to buildings, delight in the symbolic potential, and endow them with poetic expression. - John M Johansen, FAIA, during a lecture at the Mummers (Stage Center) Theater in Oklahoma City. Nanomaterials have played a significant role into many fields and it has found its way into architecture to serve sustainable and renewable approach. Architects will not build with the same conventional glass, concrete, bricks, instead new nanotech materials that will serve future needs. Nevertheless, sustainable and ecological ones will come to field. I. Nanoscience First hearing the word Nanoscience, you will understand it is the science of “Nano”, but what is “nano”?. Nano refers to the metric prefix 10-9, i.e one billionth on something. It is after all a measurement very small one. Nanoscience is the study of structures and materials on the scale of nanometer by Texas Materials Institute ( 2014). I.1 Definitions Nordlund K. 2005 says that Nanoscience deals with the scientific study of objects with sizes in the 1 – 100 nm range in at least one dimension., and that Nanotechnology deals with using objects in the same size range to develop products with possible practical application. It is usually based on nanoscience insights.