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How buildings learn
what happens after they're built
by Stewart Brand
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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 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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How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1997, Phoenix Illustrated
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0753800500 9780753800508
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1995, Tandem Library
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0613920090 9780613920094
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How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1995, Penguin Books
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
October 1, 1995, Penguin (Non-Classics)
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How buildings learn: what happens after they're built
1994, Viking
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0670835153 9780670835157
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229) and index.
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