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.
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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
- Features Bibliography
- 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
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