Brad Stone is senior executive editor for global technology at Bloomberg News and author.
The books of @stewartbrand, like How Buildings Learn, and his seminal magazine Whole Earth Catalog, were the building blocks of Silicon Valley. Cant wait to dig into Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand by the godfather @markoff. https://t.co/pYJMWOMjBB.
Traditionalist. https://t.co/t008rR8GZP #GoodUrbanism
Reading another clueless op-ed on "office to home conversion". I wish these people would first watch Stewart Brand's canonical "How Buildings Learn". The entire TV series can be found online: https://t.co/qSjbX5kdZq
I support new technology product introduction focused on early customers and early revenue. I help startup teams generate leads and close deals.
In "How Buildings Learn" Stewart Brand defines six layers in a building that change at different rates: Site, Structure, Skin, Services, Space Plan, and "Stuff." Slower layers constrain the quicker. Entrepreneurs must focus early efforts on quicker layers. https://t.co/BuO1aGRlRW
"A stunning exploration of the design of design ... How Buildings Learn will irrevocably alter yor sense of place, space, and the artifacts that shape them."
--Michael Shrage, Wired
"Penetratingly original."
--Philip Morrison, Scientific American
"An extremely attractive volume that will forever alter the way we respond to the buildings around us. We may also hope it will alter the way architects design buildings."
--Harold Gilliam, San Francisco Chronicle
"A fascinating and indefinable book ... How Buildings Learn is a hymn to entropy, a witty, heterodox book dedicated to kicking the stuffing out of the proposition that architecture is permanent and that buildings cannot adapt."
--Stephen Bayley, The Times (London)
"The book's diagnosis is clear and to the poiny, and its illustrations of how buildings change are both fascinating and instructive. This is, in short, one of the rare books that every architect should read."
--Thomas Fisher, editor, Progressive Architecture
"A book of good sound-bites and laser-sharp insight ... No architecture students should complete their preliminary studies without reading it from cover to cover."
--Patric Hannay, The Architects' Journal