改修することを前提として建物を設計するため方法を事例を用いて解説。著者はホールアースカタログの創刊者スチュワート・ブランドです。

Every building that endures will be modified. Yet few structures are built to be easily modified. The more stylized a building is now, the harder it is to change. Stewart Brand teases out design principles for making buildings that can adapt -- or "learn" -- to new needs, new uses. While his examples are architectural, showing how the greatest buildings evolve, his advice is aimed at any kind of hard-to-change organization. Software programmers think this book is talking to them since they are often asked to adapt skyscrapers of code built with no concern about adapting it later. This book will be useful to anyone trying to build complicated things that will outlive them.
[Kevin Kelly, COOL TOOLS p.118]

【コンテンツ】
Flow
Shearing Layers
"Nobody Cares What You Do In There": The Low Road
Houseproud: The High Road
Magazine Architecture: No Road
Unreal Estate
Preservation
The Romance of Maintenance
Vernacular: How Buildings Learn From Each Other
Function Melts Form: Satisficing Home and Office
The Scenario-buffered Building
Built for Change

出版年：1995年（ペーパーバック）
言語：英語
ページ数：243ページ
サイズ：27.5cm×21.5cm×1.5cm

【コンディション】
表紙・裏表紙に傷みがありますが、内部ページは良好な状態です。