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  <title><![CDATA[How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built]]></title>
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  <default_description>Like people, buildings change with age, forced to adapt to the needs of current occupations. This provocative examination of buildings that have adapted well, and some that haven't, calls for a dramatic rethinking in the way new buildings are designed, one that allows structures to grow and change easily with the environment. Photos.</default_description>
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  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[You will love this book if, like me, you think that modern and postmodern architecture has gone terribly, terribly wrong.  (Conversely, if you worship Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei, and their ilk, you will probably be offended.)  Stewart Brand argues convincingly that the buildings that survive are those t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/44813468">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stewart Brand's thinking about architecture seems to have two basic elements: a strong influence from the design patterns approach of Christopher Alexander, and Brand's own interest in the time dimension. Much of the book is infused with deep contempt for the practice of architecture as it has becom...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37417407">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jun 05 12:32:05 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jun 05 12:38:38 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I am very interested in reading this book.  Dr. Andrew Gibbons spoke about this book during his session at the #TTIX conference.  He referred to the layered approach to building a building and how each part of the building is in a sense isolated from other parts.  The framework is a separate process...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58563854">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was mildly enjoying this book until I got to the chapter entitled 'Magazine Architecture'. In it, Brand heaps all architects together with I.M. Pei who he strongly critizes for a building he designed for MIT complaining that it is only aesthetically enjoyable to the detriment of the functionality ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49781892">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="31601169">
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  <read_at>Mon Sep 01 14:57:04 -0700 2008</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Mon Sep 01 14:57:04 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Just finished &quot;How Buildings Learn&quot; by Stewart Brand and I very much enjoyed it - a good read not because he gives any pat answers or solutions, but because he refuses to do so, outlining the problems, pointing at the apparent contradictions, and in the process exposing vast vistas in how ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31601169">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="22611801">
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[Architects, designers, contractors, DIY enthusiasts, Anyone and Everyone]]></recommended_for>
  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Tony Venne]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Sat Jul 12 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue May 20 08:11:46 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jul 24 08:49:40 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[If you are an architect you should lose your license for not having read this book. Anyone interested in building, architects, contractors, home-renovators, property managers, real-estate agents, DIY weekend warriors, all of you need to read this and better both yours, your clients, your renters, an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/22611801">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="18729689">
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Stewart Brand approaches architecture as an anthropologist, critiquing the field for its current focus on evaluating and prizing empty, perfect buildings show in perfect light in glossy magazine spreads. He calls for evaluating buildings after they've been inhabited for a while, turning the focus fr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18729689">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="51276386">
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  <date_added>Thu Apr 02 11:48:25 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Apr 02 11:52:22 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have been thinking a lot about public spaces, building, and architecture lately.  I have no idea why, but it has been endlessly fascinating.  I found Brand through his work with Long Now Foundation, the WELL, Whole Earth Catalog, and his friendship with Brian Eno.  I can't appreciate it as an arch...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/51276386">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="38870329">
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  <date_updated>Sat Nov 29 10:10:52 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The case studies in the book are interesting, also confirms my belief that buildings are too expensive to replace in most cases. ]]></body>
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    <review id="78589114">
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I recently (11/09) re-read much of this book. Brand applies his long-view analysis to making and changing buildings.]]></body>
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    <review id="40371250">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[this book will change the way you look at buildings and in fact the way you view the world we live in.]]></body>
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    <review id="63181150">
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    <body><![CDATA[Every homeowner (let alone student of architecture and/or architectural history) should read this book!  ]]></body>
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    <review id="69562794">
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    <body><![CDATA[A really interesting way to look at buildings and how to make them useful for a long time.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fine book about everything having to do with what happens when people use buildings, but it is also a manifesto.  Brand argues that architecture as sculpture is antithetical to the way most humans live.  As a big fan of modern architecture, Brand changed my mind about flat or concrete boxe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16393919">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I love this book - its fascinating.]]></body>
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    <review id="4349968">
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    <body><![CDATA[this was probably the most influential book i read while in architecture school (aside from Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland).  Brand reminds us that the number one way to create a sustainable environment is to make it adaptable.  He argues that the best buildings are buildings that change with the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4349968">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="30963122">
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    <body><![CDATA[I love architectual books.  This one is a gem for anyone who notices buildings as they are changed over time.  Or, for anyone who thinks that they have just remodeled their home and that it is so beautiful, that no one will ever change it again, think again.  The author has really scoured the archiv...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/30963122">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[i read this book a few times. first time was in 1999 when working for the NPS in the historic preservation dept. <br/>it's just a very interesting read. many architects hate it since brown states that the perfect structure to live in is a land/sea container. tons of photos. fantastic.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book changed how I view low-road initiatives.  It is the bible that was years ahead of its time.  This book is about changing things in a sustainable way from the bottom up. But the content is focused on homes and buildings.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The pictures are the best part - I love seeing the same building evolve over time.  The text can be a little technical but you can skip that part.]]></body>
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