Full name: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Author: Stewart Brand Year: 1994 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Architecture, Design, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780140139969 0140139966

Buildings have often been studied 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. Similar books: Shelter by Lloyd Kahn The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander Unbuilding by David Macaulay 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick Architecture by Francis D. K. Ching Modern Architecture Since 1900 by William J. R. Curtis Building Big by David Macaulay Experiencing Architecture by Steen Eiler Rasmussen Thinking Architecture by Peter Zumthor The Most Beautiful House in the World by Witold Rybczynski Builders of the Pacific Coast by Lloyd Kahn A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley The Small House Book by Jay Shafer Why Buildings Stand Up by Mario Salvadori The Secret Lives of Buildings by Edward Hollis Basic Building Data by Don Graf Tiny Homes by Lloyd Kahn Los Angeles by Reyner Banham Delirious New York by Rem Koolhaas