Name: How Buildings Learn
ISBN: 9780140139969

Stewart Brand

Presents an illustrated analysis of contemporary buildings and architecture, making an argument for creating structures that are adaptable and allow redefinition of space and design and construction integration.

What Happens After They're Built

How Buildings Learn

I heard about this book in the context of software, even though it’s very much a book about buildings and architecture. Really great read, there’s so much I’d never considered before about how and why buildings get designed and built the way they are.

Katy Watkins

Dan King

Brian Alderman

Coleman McCormick

Aaron Lewis

joseph

Andrew Louis

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.

How Buildings Learn What Happens After They're Built