How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built by Stewart Brand

How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built



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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Stewart Brand ebook
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Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
ISBN: 9780140139969
Page: 252


In one of those odd coincidences, I had several people recommend Stewart Brand's How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built in the space of a few days. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built Buildings might learn, but people apparently don't. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. A long time netizen, Brand was the creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, cofounder of the Well and more recently author of How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Viking-Penguin, 1994). How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built book download Download How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built So they built this new building to be able to have walls moved? That was one of the central points of his book! While they may be designed for a particular use, they eventually adapt due to “usages in and around them constantly changing. The series was based on my 1994 book, HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After They're Built. The book is still selling well and is used as a text in some college courses. The concept behind this book is that buildings are meant to evolve and change; they are constantly changing. "A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction" by Christopher Alexander et al. Essentially, buildings are like onions. By Stewart Brand This book on buildings asks the question why so many buildings punish and restrict us because almost none of them adapt well. I hadn't thought of using it as a software engineering text, but you're right, there are some strong parallels. What Happens After They're Built. I would have been an architect today, if not for a scholarship to study Computer Engineering at NTU.

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