How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - Paperback

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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - Paperback

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - Paperback

by Stewart Brand
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Book Overview

A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell.

When a building is finished being built, that isn't the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time--if they're allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time rather than simply artists of space.

From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, 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.

Discover how structures become living organisms, shaped by the people who inhabit them, and learn how architects can harness the power of time to create enduring works of art through the interconnected worlds of design, function, and human ingenuity.
ISBN9780140139969
Author Stewart Brand
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreDesign and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 1995
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built - Paperback

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By Stewart Brand

About Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand is the cofounder and president of The Long Now Foundation and cofounder of Global Business Network, the Hackers Conference, and the WELL. He created and edited the National Book Award-winning Whole Earth Catalog from 1968 to 1998. His books include The Media Lab (1987), How Buildings Learn (1994), The Clock of the Long Now (1999), and Whole Earth Discipline (2009). He was the subject of the documentary We Are As Gods (2020). He graduated from Stanford with a degree in biology and served as an infantry officer in the US Army.

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