How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

Brand, Stewart

ISBN 10: 0670835153 / ISBN 13: 9780670835157

Verlag: Viking, 1994

First Edition. First edition. Hardback with wrapper. Clean, tidy copy. Illustrated. No inscriptions or annotations. No obvious marks or flaws. Not price clipped. ARTCHIT built environment. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers mon0000006716

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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.

Reseña del editor: 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.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After ...
Verlag: Viking
Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
Einband: hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: vg
Auflage: 1. Auflage