Engineering & Society
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built is a three hour television series which originally aired on the BBC in 1997. It is based on the book of the same name by Stewart Brand, a scientist, artist and veteran of the environmental movement. Brand is also the creator of the well known The Whole Earth Catalog and the Long Now Foundation.
The television series features Brand explaining how different buildings were or were not built to withstand time and change. He looks at how buildings adjust to having new residents with new needs for the space. Buildings that provide people unique spaces that can be individualized and adapted to fit a varity of specific needs, demonstrate how buildings learn.
