How Buildings Learn
Architecture judged over decades rather than at completion, where the celebrated buildings often fare worst.
Stewart Brand’s insight is that architecture is almost always studied as a finished object, when buildings actually spend decades being modified by the people inside them. The best ones adapt easily; the celebrated ones often adapt worst. It is a book about time as a building material, and it changed how many people read a street.
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Derek Sivers
I’ve read this book three times since 1999, and gifted it many times to others. It’s changed the way I look at buildings. I read it again now because I’m building a new house.
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