How Buildings Learn (book by Stewart Brand)
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In How Buildings Learn, Stewart Brand shows that buildings are never finished: occupants keep adapting them over time, often in unplanned ways, which argues for designing flexible structures rather than fixed monuments.
Stewart Brand's exploration highlighting the temporal reality that designed structures inevitably adapt, change, and are modified over time by their inhabitants, changing needs, and environmental circumstances — often in ways completely unforeseen, and sometimes unwelcome, by their original creators; cited to argue for designing flexible 'scaffolding' that supports ongoing life rather than immutable monuments.
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