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. |
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 | |
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| Title | How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built |
| Author | Stewart Brand |
| Publisher | Penguin, 1995 |
| ISBN | 1101562641, 9781101562642 |
| Length | 252 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / Criticism Architecture / Historic Preservation / General Architecture / History / General |
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