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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built, Brand, Stewart, 978014013
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0140139966
ISBN-13
9780140139969
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57810
Product Key Features
Book Title
How Buildings Learn : What Happens after They're Built
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Historic Preservation / General, Criticism, History / General
Publication Year
1995
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Architecture
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
29.3 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
10.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
"It''s about time somebody wrote this book. This quirky, thoughtful volume, bursting with curiosity and intelligence, may make our everyday world more visible to more Americans. Architecture is too important to be left to architects alone." — Mixed Media "A stunning exploration of the design of design … How Buildings Learn will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them." —Michael Shrage, Wired "Penetratingly original." —Philip Morrison, Scientific American "An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us. We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings." —Harold Gilliam, San Francisco Chronicle "A fascinating and indefinable book … How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt." —Stephen Bayley, The Times (London) "The book''s diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive. This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read." —Thomas Fisher, editor, Progressive Architecture "A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight … No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover." —Patric Hannay, The Architects'' Journal, "It's about time somebody wrote this book. This quirky, thoughtful volume, bursting with curiosity and intelligence, may make our everyday world more visible to more Americans. Architecture is too important to be left to architects alone." — Mixed Media "A stunning exploration of the design of design … How Buildings Learn will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them." —Michael Shrage, Wired "Penetratingly original." —Philip Morrison, Scientific American "An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us. We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings." —Harold Gilliam, San Francisco Chronicle "A fascinating and indefinable book … How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt." —Stephen Bayley, The Times (London) "The book's diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive. This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read." —Thomas Fisher, editor, Progressive Architecture "A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight … No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover." —Patric Hannay, The Architects' Journal, "It's about time somebody wrote this book. This quirky, thoughtful volume, bursting with curiosity and intelligence, may make our everyday world more visible to more Americans. Architecture is too important to be left to architects alone." -- Mixed Media "A stunning exploration of the design of design ... How Buildings Learn will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them." --Michael Shrage, Wired "Penetratingly original." --Philip Morrison, Scientific American "An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us. We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings." --Harold Gilliam, San Francisco Chronicle "A fascinating and indefinable book ... How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt." --Stephen Bayley, The Times (London) "The book's diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive. This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read." --Thomas Fisher, editor, Progressive Architecture "A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight ... No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover." --Patric Hannay, The Architects' Journal
Dewey Edition
20
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Grade To
UP
Dewey Decimal
720/.1
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments Cover Story 1. Flow 2. Shearing Layers 3. "Nobody Cares What You Do In There": The Low Road 4. Houseproud: The High Road 5. Magazine Architecture: No Road 6. Unreal Estate 7. Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution 8. The Romance of Maintenance 9. Vernacular: How Buildings Learn from Each Other 10. Function Melts Form: Satisficing Home and Office 11. The Scenario-buffered Building 12. Built for Change APPENDIX: The Study of Buildings in Time Recommended Bibliography: Books for Time-kindly Buildings Index
Synopsis
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., A captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell. When a building is finished being built, that isn't the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time--if they're allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time rather than simply artists of space. From the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei's Media Lab, 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. Discover how structures become living organisms, shaped by the people who inhabit them, and learn how architects can harness the power of time to create enduring works of art through the interconnected worlds of design, function, and human ingenuity.
LC Classification Number
NA2542.4.B73 1995
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