Book
How Buildings LearnStewart Brand

How Buildings Learn

1994243 pages
No counted ratings yet
4 editions

Track this book

You choose which shelves are public. Progress and read dates stay yours.
Sign in

About

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…

Add to list

Reviews

No reviews yet. Sign in to write the first.

Rating integrity

Healthy
Scores only count accounts older than 7 days and ratings made after publication; read-verified ratings weigh double; ratings from readers who didn’t finish are shown but not counted.

Editions

4 editions
  • Hardcover · English · 1995
    Tandem Library · 9780613920094
  • Paperback · English · 1995
    Penguin (Non-Classics) · 256 pages · 9780140139969
  • Other · English · 1997
    Phoenix Illustrated · 243 pages · 9780753800508
  • Other · English · 1994
    Viking · 243 pages · 9780670835157
BuildingsPerformanceHuman factorsArchitectureUtilizationLong Now Manual for CivilizationBuildingConservation and restoration