How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Paperback - 1995
by Stewart Brand
Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.
Summary
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 Chatsworththis is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.
More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with timeif they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
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- Title How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- Author Stewart Brand
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 256
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, New York
- Date 1995-10-01
- ISBN 9780140139969 / 0140139966
- Weight 1.79 lbs (0.81 kg)
- Dimensions 8.45 x 10.81 x 0.63 in (21.46 x 27.46 x 1.60 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Dewey Decimal Code 720
Media reviews
Mixed Media
"A stunning exploration of the design of design How Buildings Learn will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them."
Michael Shrage, Wired
"Penetratingly original."
Philip Morrison, Scientific American
"An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us. We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings."
Harold Gilliam, San Francisco Chronicle
"A fascinating and indefinable book How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt."
Stephen Bayley, The Times (London)
"The book's diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive. This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read."
Thomas Fisher, editor, Progressive Architecture
"A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover."
Patric Hannay, The Architects' Journal
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