{"product_id":"how-buildings-learn-isbn-9780140139969","title":"How Buildings Learn","description":"\u003cb\u003eA captivating exploration of the ever-evolving world of architecture and the untold stories buildings tell. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eWhen a building is finished being built, that isn’t the end of its story. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time—if they’re allowed to. Buildings adapt by being constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and in that way, architects can become artists of time rather than simply artists of space. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the connected farmhouses of New England to I.M. Pei’s Media Lab, 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 is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover how structures become living organisms, shaped by the people who inhabit them, and learn how architects can harness the power of time to create enduring works of art through the interconnected worlds of design, function, and human ingenuity.Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eCover Story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Flow\u003cbr\u003e2. Shearing Layers\u003cbr\u003e3. \"Nobody Cares What You Do In There\": The Low Road\u003cbr\u003e4. Houseproud: The High Road\u003cbr\u003e5. Magazine Architecture: No Road\u003cbr\u003e6. Unreal Estate\u003cbr\u003e7. Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution\u003cbr\u003e8. The Romance of Maintenance\u003cbr\u003e9. Vernacular: How Buildings Learn from Each Other\u003cbr\u003e10. Function Melts Form: Satisficing Home and Office\u003cbr\u003e11. The Scenario-buffered Building\u003cbr\u003e12. Built for Change\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAPPENDIX: The Study of Buildings in Time\u003cbr\u003eRecommended Bibliography: Books for Time-kindly Buildings\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It's about time somebody wrote this book.  This quirky, thoughtful volume, bursting with curiosity and intelligence, may make our everyday world more visible to more Americans.  Architecture is too important to be left to architects alone.\"\u003cbr\u003e —\u003cb\u003eMixed Media\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A stunning exploration of the design of design … \u003cb\u003eHow Buildings Learn\u003c\/b\u003e will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Michael Shrage, \u003cb\u003eWired\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Penetratingly original.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Philip Morrison, \u003cb\u003eScientific American\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us.  We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Harold Gilliam, \u003cb\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating and indefinable book … \u003cb\u003eHow Buildings Learn\u003c\/b\u003e is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Stephen Bayley, \u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e (London)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book's diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive.  This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Thomas Fisher, editor, \u003cb\u003eProgressive Architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight … No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover.\"\u003cbr\u003e —Patric Hannay, \u003cb\u003eThe Architects' Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThough honored as a writer—with the National Book Award for the \u003cb\u003eWhole Earth Catalog\u003c\/b\u003e, Eliot Montroll Award for \u003cb\u003eThe Media Lab\u003c\/b\u003e, Golden Gadfly Award for his years as editor of \u003cb\u003eCoEvolution Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e—\u003cb\u003eSteward Brand\u003c\/b\u003e is primarily an inventor\/designer.  Trained as a biologist and army officer, he was an early multimedia artist.  He has created a number of lasting institutions, including New Games Tournaments, the Hackers Conference, and The WELL, a bellwether computer conference system.  He is co-founder of Global Business Network, a futurist research organization fostering \"the art of the long view.\"","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302428528869,"sku":"NP9780140139969","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140139969.jpg?v=1767729294","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/how-buildings-learn-isbn-9780140139969","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}