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How buildings learn : [electronic resource] what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Penguin Books, 1995, c1994.Description: viii, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 x 28 cmISBN:
  • 0140139966 (pbk.) :
  • 9780140139969 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720/.1 20
LOC classification:
  • NA2542.4 .B73 1995
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Contents:
Flow -- Shearing layers -- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road --- Houseproud: the high road -- Magazine architecture: no road -- Unreal estate -- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution -- The romance of maintenance -- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other -- Function melts form: satisficing home and office -- The scenario-buffered building -- Built for change -- Appendix: The study of buildings in time.
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Originally published: New York, NY : Viking, 1994.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-229) and index.

Flow -- Shearing layers -- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road --- Houseproud: the high road -- Magazine architecture: no road -- Unreal estate -- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution -- The romance of maintenance -- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other -- Function melts form: satisficing home and office -- The scenario-buffered building -- Built for change -- Appendix: The study of buildings in time.

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