How buildings learn

"Buildings have often been studied whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time." "Architects (and architectural historians) are interested only in a building's original intentions. Most are dismayed by what happens later, when a building develops its...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stewart Brand
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York Viking 1994
Subjects:
Architecture > Human factors. Buildings > Performance. Buildings > Utilization.
Table of 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.

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