An edition of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (1994)

How buildings learn

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An edition of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (1994)

How buildings learn

what happens after they're built

by

  • ★★★★ 4.2 (5 ratings) ·
  • 180 Want to read
  • 4 Currently reading
  • 8 Have read

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. - Publisher.

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Viking
Language
English
Pages
243

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Subjects

Buildings, Performance, Human factors, Architecture, Utilization, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Architecture, conservation and restoration, Building
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Cover of: How buildings learn
How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1997, Phoenix Illustrated, Weidenfeld Nicolson Illustrate, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
in English - Rev. ed.
Cover of: How buildings learn
How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1995, Penguin Books
in English
Cover of: How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
Paperback in English
Cover of: How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
in English
Cover of: How Buildings Learn
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1995, Tandem Library
Hardcover in English
Cover of: How buildings learn
How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1994, Viking
in English

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229) and index.

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New York, NY

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
720/.1
Library of Congress
NA2542.4 .B73 1994, NA2542.4.B73 1994

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Pagination
viii, 243 p. :
Number of pages
243

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OL1428924M
ISBN 10
0670835153
LCCN
93040193
Library Thing
3636
Goodreads
1465689

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Work ID
OL823146W

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