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How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

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Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn examines the way buildings change through use, maintenance and adaptation. It suits an architecture student, a renovation enthusiast or anyone fascinated by how homes actually work, connecting design decisions with the ordinary lives that continue long after construction has ended.

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This is a book about how buildings evolve over time. Choose it for an interest in architecture, adaptation and repair rather than decorating instructions.

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An architecture or renovation reader interested in buildings over time.

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This is a book about how buildings evolve over time. Choose it for an interest in architecture, adaptation and repair rather than decorating instructions.

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Someone looking for decorating instructions.

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Is this a home-decorating manual?

No. It examines how buildings adapt through use, maintenance and repair.

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