How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built

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Buildings have incessantly 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 easiest when repeatedly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time.

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 can be a far-ranging survey of unexplored very important territory.

More than some other human artifacts, buildings strengthen with time—if they are allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows the way to work with time moderately than against it.

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