How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Author: Stewart Brand
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Author
Stewart Brand
ISBN
9780140139969
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 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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Stewart BrandPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 10/01/1995ISBN: 9780140139969Pages: 256Weight: 1.79lbsSize: 8.45h x 10.81w x 0.63d
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 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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Stewart Brand
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1995
ISBN: 9780140139969
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 8.45h x 10.81w x 0.63d
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 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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Stewart Brand
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 10/01/1995
ISBN: 9780140139969
Pages: 256
Weight: 1.79lbs
Size: 8.45h x 10.81w x 0.63d