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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built is an illustrated book on the evolution of buildings and how buildings adapt to changing requirements over long periods. It was written by Stewart Brand and published by Viking Press in 1994. In 1997 it was turned into a 6-part TV series on the BBC. Brand asserts that the best buildings are made from low-cost, standard designs that people are familiar with, and easy to modify. In this way people can gradually change their buildings to meet their needs. One of his examples is Building 20 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brand states that a supply of simple, low-cost, easily modified buildings is key to innovation and economic growth. He implies that an expanding property-value market may actually slow innovation and produce a less human-centered community. Among other things, the book details the notion of Shearing layers. Criticism of the architect Richard Rogers was removed from the UK edition but remains in the US edi

How Buildings Learn - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1994 book and TV series by Stewart Brand How Buildings Learn Author Stewart Brand Language English Subject Architecture , Adaptive reuse Genre Non-fiction Publisher Viking Press Publication date 1994 Publication place United States Media type Print Pages 243 ISBN 978-0-670-83515-7 OCLC 29566065 Dewey Decimal 720/.1 LC Class NA2542.4 .B73 1994 In How Buildings Learn , Stewart Brand cites the example of Palazzo Pubblico in Siena as a building that was constructed in sections over 500 ye

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