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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…
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4 editions- Hardcover · English · 1995Tandem Library · 9780613920094
- Paperback · English · 1995Penguin (Non-Classics) · 256 pages · 9780140139969
- Other · English · 1997Phoenix Illustrated · 243 pages · 9780753800508
- Other · English · 1994Viking · 243 pages · 9780670835157
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