How Buildings Learn: the BBC Series

Stewart Brand

Stewart Brand’s How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built (Viking Press, 1994) explores the evolution of buildings in time. In 1997 it was turned into a six-part television series on the BBC. Brand pulls no punches in his critique of the Modern Movement, as he makes an argument for designing in ways that enable buildings to endure, not for decades but for centuries. Here is the final installment of the series.