How Buildings Learn

A masterful, far-reaching synthesis proposes that buildings adapt best when constantly refined and reshaped by their occupants and that architects can mature from being artists of space to becoming artists of time. From the connected farmhouses of New England to I. M. Pei's Media Lab, from Satisficing to the invention of Santa Fe Style, and from Low Road military surplus buildings to a High Road English classic like Chatsworth—this is a wide-ranging survey of unexplored essential territory. More than any other human artifacts, buildings improve with age—if they're allowed to. How Buildings Learn shows how to work with time rather than against it.