HOW BUILDINGS LEARN WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY'RE BUILT
Written by Stewart Brand
Published by Phoenix Illustrated; Orion Books Ltd.
in 1997
ISBN: 0753800500
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- ARCHITECTURE
- HOMES AND HOUSING
HOW BUILDINGS LEARN WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THEY'RE BUILT
Written by Stewart Brand.
Stock no. 1329827
1st PB.
1997.
Softcover.
Almost very good condition.
The author puts forward the radical proposal that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants and that architects can mature from being artists of space to become artists of time. Oblong format. Cardwraps. 243 pages. B/w photos. ISBN: 0753800500. Spine and corners bumped and slightly creased. Fading to spine. Name in ink to half title-page. Light damp stain to lower edges of prelims.
Front cover
Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Cover Story
- 1. Flow
- 2. Shearing Layers
- 3. "Nobody Cares What You Do In There?: The Low Road
- 4. Houseproud: The High Road
- 5. Magazine Architecture: No Road
- 6. Unreal Estate
- 7. Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution
- 8. The Romance of Maintenance
- 9. Vernacular: How Buildings Learn From Each Oter
- 10. Function Melts Form: Satisficing Home and Office
- 11. The Scenario-Buffered Building
- 12. Built for Change
- Appendix: The Study of Buildings in Time
- Recommended Bibliography: Books for Time-kindly Buildings
- Index