How Buildings Learn
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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 is a far-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory.
More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with time-if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.
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1. Flow 2. Shearing Layers 3. "Nobody Cares What You Do In There": The Low Road 4. Houseproud: The High Road 5. Magazine Architecture: No Road 6. Unreal Estate 7. Preservation: A Quiet, Populist, Conservative, Victorious Revolution 8. The Romance of Maintenance 9. Vernacular: How Buildings Learn from Each Other 10. Function Melts Form: Satisficing Home and Office 11. The Scenario-buffered Building 12. Built for Change
APPENDIX: The Study of Buildings in Time Recommended Bibliography: Books for Time-kindly Buildings Index
