How Buildings Learn | PSFK - Trends, Ideas & Inspiration - The Diigo Meta page

• 11 Aug 08
  

  david miller

  architecture

• 08 Aug 08
  

  Yule Heibel

  PSFK's Piers Fawkes writes an entry that provides the links (now available on Google Video) to the BBC series, "How Buildings Learn," by Stewart Brand. In addition to the six parts (each ~30 min. long), Fawkes includes some choice quotes.
  
  For those who know and appreciated Stewart Brand's book, this series is a great addition.

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  • Only 1 in 10 buildings are revisited by the architects after they’re in use.
  • Buildings change and change and change because all the people who use them have their own ideas - and that’s good… but we need a better understanding of the organic change that happens to buildings.
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  • • The central problem is that architects don’t want change - but change is inevitable. People who use them change how they want to use them - but we have to understand that.
    • this lack of confidence that has been fostered in the population is a manipulation that has been caused partly by the media, largely by the [architectural] profession - and this endangers the fabric of society because if people lose confidence in themselves to that degree then the adaptation of the environment to common sense and everyday use disappears.

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