How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
Stewart Brand
Nonfiction
James Mustich
Aug 10, 2018
Beginning with an anecdote about the predictable long line for the ladies’ room at the San Francisco Opera House, Brand argues that too many buildings are built in rigid adherence to long-held notions. Despite the assumptions of many planners, architects, and builders, he continues, time means more to most architecture than space; as a corollary, then, it’s clear that design is not as important as the way that design adapts to use as use changes. What starts out as a treatise on architectural adaptability ends up delivering to the reader a host of new inspirations for exploring other “permanent” things—from cities to selves—that are layered in time. How Buildings Learn is a capacious toolbox of ideas, filled with surprising compartments. You’ll learn a lot no matter where you open it.
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Matthew Bennett
Jun 23, 2020
A great approachable book about the built environment and how we shape it
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