How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Brand, Stewart

ISBN 10: 0670835153 / ISBN 13: 9780670835157

Verlag: Viking, New York, 1994

Beschreibung

Oblong quarto in multi-color illus paper wraps; viii, 243 pages: illustrations; 22 x 27 cm; bibliographical references (pages 224-229) and index. Architecture -- Human factors. Buildings -- Performance. Buildings -- Utilization. Architecture -- Facteurs humains. Constructions -- Comportement. Constructions -- Utilisation. Architecture -- Human factors. Buildings -- Performance. Buildings -- Utilization. Gebouwen. Verbouwingen. Veranderingsprocessen. Onderhoud. Functionaliteit. Arquitetura (reforma) Edif?cios. Arquitetura vernacular. Very good (binding a wee bit shaken) in very goodjacket with small closed tear to spine top.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 93488

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
• Verlag: Viking, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1994
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0670835153
• ISBN-13: 9780670835157
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: First printing (stated).
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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Inhaltsangabe

This book on buildings asks the question why so many buildings punish and restrict us because almost none of them adapt well. In real use, buildings need to adapt because their uses are constantly changing. All buildings are predictions, and yet more high-style buildings are designed not to change, not to accommodate new use. A good portion of how buildings learn will be a natural history of how buildings change with time and what things work to make buildings adapt gracefully, what building layouts allow easy redefinition of space and building code considerations that permit remodelling. This practical book aims to integrate all the different aspects of the fragmented design and construction process, so that buildings can be seen as embodying a functional, yet aesthetic and capacious vision, not the conflicts, compromises and conveniences of clients, architects, engineers and contractors, all working in their interests, not the buildings.