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“Function reforms form, perpetually”*…
Diagrams from How Buildings Learn. On the left, a diagram by Frank Duffy showing the increasing capital costs over the lifetime of a building. On the right, a diagram by Stewart Brand and Donald Ryan showing the Shearing Layers of Change. (source)Over the years I have given away many, many copies of many books in the hope that they might be of interest/use to the recipient. The book of which I’ve gifted the most copies is How Buildings Learn- What Happens After They’re Built, published in 1995 by my GBN partner and Long Now colleague Stewart Brand. While it has certainly earned its plaudits as a work of architectural criticism, I’ve handed it out because it’s the most thoughtful and evocative book on strategy I’ve come across; it’s p-o-v and principles, rooted in (often literally) concrete examples, amount to the best manifesto I’ve found for thinking and planning for the long term.
In 1997, The BBC released a six-part series based on the book (with music by GBN and Long Now colleague and friend Brian Eno). As Open Culture reports, Stewart has created a YouTube channel to make the series available to us all…
Stewart Brand came onto the cultural scene during the 1960s, helping to stage the Acid Tests made famous by Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, and later launching the influential Whole Earth Catalog (something Steve Jobs described as “Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along”). He also vigorously campaigned in 1966 to have NASA release a photograph showing the entirety of Earth from space—something we take for granted now, but fired humanity’s imagination back then.
During the 1970s and beyond, Brand founded CoEvolution Quarterly, a successor to the Whole Earth Catalog; the WELL (“Whole Earth ‘Lectronic Link”), “a prototypical, wide-ranging online community for intelligent, informed participants the world over;” and eventually The Long Now Foundation, whose work we’ve highlighted here before. When not creating new institutions, he has poured his creative energies into books and films…
… Based on [the book, How Buildings Learn], the TV series offers a critique of modernist approaches to architecture (think Buckminster Fuller, Frank Gehry, and Le Corbusier) and instead argues for “an organic kind of building, based on four walls, which is easy to change and expand and grow as the ideal form of building.”
Brand made the series available on his YouTube channel, with these words: “Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like… Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project.” And he added the noteworthy footnote: “this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital—shot digital, edited digital.”…
A wonderful series on architecture– and more broadly, on planning for the long term: “Watch Stewart Brand’s 6‑Part Series How Buildings Learn, With Music by Brian Eno,” from @openculture.bsky.social.
Watch the series here.
Further to yesterday’s post (and thanks to friend MK) an obituary of Don Michael, another GBN friend, and author of another book– Learning to Plan and Planning to Learn: The Social Psychology of Changing Toward Future-Responsive Societal Learning— that I’ve given away many, many times.
* Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built
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As we take the long view, we might recall that it was on this date in 1914 that Frank Lloyd Wright’s self-designed home in Wisconsin, Taliesin, was the site of mass murder and arson. Julian Carlton, a servant of Wright, set fire to the home and brutally attacked the people there during lunch. He ultimately killed seven, including Wright’s partner, “Mamah” Borthwick.
Wright was among the architects that Brand criticized in How Buildings Learn. Brand argued that Wright designed rigid, static “magazine architecture” that prioritized photogenic style and artistic ego over practical function, durability, and the way buildings must adapt to weather and human use over time. That said, Stewart never even thought of reaching for the matches nor a hatchet.
The earliest known image of Taliesin I, taken in the winter of its construction in 1911-12. Southwest elevation (source) #architecture #BrianEno #culture #FrankLloydWright #history #HowBuildingsLearn #longTermThinking #planning #StewartBrand #Taliesin #trueCrime -
KEVIN AYERS - JOHN CALE - ENO - NICO
June 1, 1974
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L’art, c’est tout ce que vous n’êtes pas obligé de faire.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSEpSpIrt98
#HaroldBudd #Music #Ambient #NewAge #Minimalism #Experimental #Electronic #Socialmedia #tv #Interview #Music
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No, Brian Eno Is Not Behind the Film Soundtrack for ‘At Night.’ Experimental Musician Elvin Brandhi Is.
#MovieNews #Movies #BBCFilms #BrianEno #International #Locarno2026 #LocarnoFilmFestival -
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Fred again.., Brian Eno & LATIN MAFIA:
🎵 Cmon (LATIN MAFIA & Fred edit)#Fredagain #BrianEno #LATINMAFIA
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🇬🇧 Brian Eno "Ali Click" – 1992
Never thought I'd own a maxi single by Brian Eno but there's a The Grid remix on it.
Released during a period where Eno explored ambient, electronic, and generative approaches to composition, the track demonstrates his ability to remain curious and innovative decades into his career...
#brianeno #ambient #electronicmusic #experimentalmusic #artrock #avantgarde #90smusic #vinyl #music #vinylrecords #nowspinningonvinyl #nowspinning #nowlistening
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #MorningShow
David Byrne & Brian Eno:
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Yes - 1971-1979 Bootlegs Collection - 16 Shows
t.me/media_yura15cbx/475
Genesis - Bootlegs Collection 1970-2009 (36 альбомов + 5CD Box Set)
#Genesis - #Bootlegs Collectiont.me/media_yura15cbx/467
Pink Floyd bootlegs
#Pink Floyd #bootlegs #Pink Floyd bootlegst.me/media_yura15cbx/464
Подборка варганной музыки .mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/463
Led Zeppelin bootlegs, 900Gb
#Led Zeppelin #bootlegs, #900Gbt.me/media_yura15cbx/452
90-e mp3 60-e mp3 50-e mp3 40-e mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/456
_Eurodance mp3
#Eurodance #mp3t.me/media_yura15cbx/457
Urban Jazz mp3
#Urban Jazz #mp3VA - Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 1-216 + EPs (254 релиза) - 1999-2020
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Фильмы кинематографически странных государств. Не таких странных как кндр, но всё равно не обычных.
#кино #фильмы странных стран видео #cinema #movies #video #кіно #фільми #відео #cine #películas #vídeo di #film #cinematograficit.me/media_yura15cbx/542
North korea movies
#North korea movies
фильмы производства #КНДР.t.me/media_yura15cbx/534
Crosby, Stills Nash & Young Discography (1969-2008)t.me/media_yura15cbx/514
post-grunget.me/media_yura15cbx/507
Jimi Hendrix Live
#Jimi Hendrixt.me/media_yura15cbx/500
Ozzy Osbournet.me/media_yura15cbx/489
Poland metal, Польща метал, польский металл, Polska metal, Польшаt.me/media_yura15cbx/491
Black Sabbath #Bootlegs & #Demost.me/media_yura15cbx/485
ACDC - #Bootleg Collection (145 albums), 1974-2011CHICAGO BLUES SESSION - Wolf Records
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Humphrey Bogart
#old movies #старые фильмыt.me/media_yura15cbx/568
_Canterbury Scene
#Canterbury Scene
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Camel
#Camel
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Electric Light Orchestra - Studio Discography - 1971-2015
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP) Discography
#Emerson, #Lake & #Palmer (#ELP) #Discography
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AUTECHRE
#AUTECHRE
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Brian Eno
#Brian Eno
lossless ape flac_Urban Blues
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_Detroit Blues
#Detroit Blues
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_Louisiana Blues
#Louisiana Blues
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_Acoustic Blues
#Acoustic Blues
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_Texas Blues
#Texas Blues
#lossless #ape #flack #blues #music #блюз #музыкаt.me/media_yura15cbx/589
VA – Good Whiskey Blues (Blues Paradise series, Volumes 1-18) (2002)
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_Chicago Blues
#Chicago Blues
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DonLettsCultureClashRadio
Brian Eno & David Byrne:
🎵 The Jezebel Spirit -
Demons! This is one of the great music references in my life!
🎧 Brian Eno & David Byrne
💿 My Life in the bush of ghostsI have this original, but I ended up buying the reissue as it comes with an extra vinyl with recordings left in the studio at the time.
Curiosity - The track "Quran" was removed from side two on the reissues, so I keep both 😉
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Brian Eno/John Cale:
🎵 Spinning Away -
120 brittiläistä miljonääriä on lähettänyt uudelle pääministerille, Andy Burnhamille avoimen kirjeen, jossa toivovat, että heitä verotetaan enemmän.
Mukana mm. ex-futaaja #GaryLineker, tuottaja #BrianEno ja kirjailija #ValMcDermid.
Kutsuvat itseään #PatrioticMillionaires -nimellä, ja tukevat 2 % veroa yli 10 miljoonan punnan omaisuuksille.
#miljonäärivero #verot #verotus #omaisuus #rikkaat #miljonäärit #UKpol #Britannia #politiikka #veropolitiikka #eriarvoisuus
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Hybrid (1985) di Michael Brook con Brian Eno e Daniel Lanois
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eCmeAH7MG8&list=OLAK5uy_lq39pdXOJkQD9Hcr6178t8eHY4IF7IVdw&index=2
#music #ambient #elettronica #MichaelBrook #BrianEno #DanielLanois
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More Songs About Buildings And Food
#TheTalkingHeads #TalkingHeads #NewWave #postpunk #psychedelicfunk #avantegard #davidbyrne #brianeno #rock #rockmusic #music #musicsky #musiciansky The Talking Heads release their second on July 14, 1978. It's the first of three produced by Brian Eno. The album also gave them their first hit -- a tasty remake of Al Green's "Take Me To The River." It's #364 on Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time."
https://robinbannks.com/2026/07/14/more-songs-about-buildings-and-food/
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Emotional Monday mood, so some musical & sonic balsam needed...
Brian Eno - The Demon Of The Mines (2005)
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‘Ramones had leather jackets when they got spat on. We didn’t!’ David Byrne on touring with Talking Heads and taking advice from Lou Reed https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jul/09/david-byrne-reader-interview-touring-talking-heads-ramones-lou-reed #DavidByrne #Music #PopAndRock #TalkingHeads #Culture #Film #TheRamones #BrianEno
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G-Nitro’s Daily Music Wrap-Up – 6/24/26
I check out an album by Brian Eno & David Byrne.
Favorite Videos include U Sung Eun's For:Rest Live, Max B & French Montana's On The Radar performance, and more!
https://g-nitro.com/g-nitros-daily-music-wrap-up-6-24-26
#Music #1001albums #BrianEno #DavidByrne #USungEun #ForRestLive #MaxB #FrenchMontana #OnTheRadar
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
David Byrne & Brian Eno:
🎵 Strange Overtones
