How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're BuiltBuildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time. From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, from "satisficing" to "form follows funding," from the evolution of bungalows to the invention of Santa Fe Style, from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworth—this is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it. |
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User Review - modioperandi - LibraryThingFirst Stewart Brand is an expert observer. Next Stewart Brand is skilled at thinking about what he has seen. How Buildings Learn is a fantastic read from a writer that who has the uncanny ability to ... Read full review
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User Review - elenchus - LibraryThingMy approach is to examine buildings as a whole -- not just whole in space, but whole in time. Some buildings are designed and managed as a spatial whole, none as a temporal whole. In the absence of ... Read full review
Contents
The Low Road | |
The High Road | |
No Road | |
Unreal Estate | |
The Romance of Maintenance | |
How Buildings Learn From Each Other | |
Satisficing Home and Office | |
The Scenariobuffered Building | |
Built for Change | |
The Study of Buildings in Time | |
Books for Timekindly Buildings | |