How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Brand, Stewart
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Buildings 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 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
- Brand, Stewart
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 764
- ISBN 10
- 0140139966
- ISBN 13
- 9780140139969
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1995-10-01
- X weight
- 29 oz
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