- Buildings, Performance, Human factors, Architecture
Buildings have often been studies whole in space, but never before have they been studied whole in time. How Buildings Learn is a masterful new synthesis that 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.
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Warm, cool, earnest and spare.
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- cooloverwhelming
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Stewart Brand
- First published
- 1994
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Penguin Books, Tandem Library
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780613920094
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