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How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brand, Stewart, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--Human factors.
- Architecture.
- Buildings--Performance.
- Buildings.
- Buildings--Utilization.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Penguin Books, 1995.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.
- Contents:
- Flow
- Shearing layers
- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road
- Houseproud: the high road
- Magazine architecture: no road
- Unreal estate
- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution
- The romance of maintenance
- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other
- Function melts form: satisficing home and office
- The scenario-buffered building
- Built for change
- Appendix: The study of buildings in time.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from READ title page (Overdrive, viewed Feb. 12, 2014).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781101562642
- 1101562641
- Publisher Number:
- 99983935562
- EB00385155 Recorded Books
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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