How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in...
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Author: Stewart Brand
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Brand, Stewart

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

CHF 58.38

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

CHF 58.38
Author: Stewart Brand
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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.



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

About the Author
Though honored as a writer--with the National Book Award for the Whole Earth Catalog, Eliot Montroll Award for The Media Lab, Golden Gadfly Award for his years as editor of CoEvolution Quarterly--Steward Brand is primarily an inventor/designer. Trained as a biologist and army officer, he was an early multimedia artist. He has created a number of lasting institutions, including New Games Tournaments, the Hackers Conference, and The WELL, a bellwether computer conference system. He is co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering the art of the long view.

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