Main entry:

Brand, Stewart.

Title & Author:

How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.

Publication:

New York, NY : Viking, ©1994.

Description:

viii, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-229) and index.
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.

Summary:

"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 own life, responsive to the life within. To get the rest of the story - to explore the years between the dazzle of a new building and its eventual corpse - Stewart Brand went to facilities managers and real estate professionals, to preservationists and building historians, to photo archives and to futurists. He inquired, "What makes some buildings come to be loved?" He found that all buildings are forced to adapt, but only some adapt gracefully." "How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis which 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. A rich resource and point of departure, as stimulating for the general reader and home improvement hobbyist as for the building professional, the book is sure to generate ideas, provoke debate, and shake up habitual thinking." "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 artifact, buildings improve with time - if they're allowed. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents

ISBN:

0670835153
9780670835157
0140139966
9780140139969

Subject:

Architecture Human factors.
Buildings Performance.
Buildings Utilization.
Buildings utilization.
Architecture - Facteurs humains.
Constructions - Comportement.
Immeubles de grande hauteur - Utilisation.
Architektur.
Architecture Facteurs humains.
Constructions Comportement.
Immeubles de grande hauteur Utilisation.
Constructions Utilisation.
Faktor Mensch
Psychologie
Gebouwen.
Verbouwingen.
Tijdsverloop.
Architecture History
architectuur
mens
man
psychologie
psychology
invloeden
influences
gebouwen
buildings
prestatieniveau
performance
nuttig gebruik
utilization
ontwerp
design
planning
toekomst
future
Architecture (General)
Architectuur (algemeen)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 102229
Call No.: ID NA2542.4.B73; ID:94-B1545
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main price 266934
Call No.: BIB 86798
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available