How buildings learn : what happens after they're built / Stewart Brand.
By: Brand, Stewart
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BookPublisher: London : Phoenix, 1994Description: 243 p. : ill. ; 21cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0753800500.Subject(s): Architecture -- Human factors | Buildings -- Utilization | Buildings -- PerformanceDDC classification: 720.47 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Cork School of Music Library Lending | 720.47 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00154042 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending | 720.47 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00072607 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Stewart Brand puts forward the radical proposal adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants, and that architects can mature from being artists of time.
Bibliography: p. 224-229. - Includes index.
Flow -- Shearing layers -- "Nobody cares what you do in there": the low road -- Houseproud: the high road -- Unreal estate -- Preservation: a quiet, populist, conservative, victorious revolution -- The romance of maintenance -- Vernacular: how buildings learn from each other -- Function melts form: satisficing home and office -- The scenario-buffered building -- Built for change.
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