How Buildings Learn (1000 Books to Read)

I NEVER would have picked up this book had it not been on the 1000 Books to Read List, but it was fascinating (although a bit tedious because I think it is written for architects). I'm glad I read it even though it was hard to get through! 

I will never look at a building in the same way again! LOL! 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

James Mustich

Beginning with an anecdote about the predictable long line for the ladies’ room at the San Francisco Opera House, Brand argues that too many buildings are built in rigid adherence to long-held notions. Despite the assumptions of many planners, architects, and builders, he continues, time means more to most architecture than space; as a corollary, then, it’s clear that design is not as important as the way that design adapts to use as use changes. What starts out as a treatise on architectural adaptability ends up delivering to the reader a host of new inspirations for exploring other “permanent” things—from cities to selves—that are layered in time. How Buildings Learn is a capacious toolbox of ideas, filled with surprising compartments. You’ll learn a lot no matter where you open it.