5. How Buildings Learn Stewart Brand 5 of 6 The Romance of Maintenance

This sixpart, threehour, BBC TV series aired in 1997. I presented and cowrote the series; it was directed by James Muncie, with music by Brian Eno. The series was based on my 1994 book, HOW BUILDINGS LEARN: What Happens After Theyre Built. The book is still selling well and is used as a text in some college courses. Most of the 27 reviews on Amazon treat it as a book about system and software design, which tells me that architects are not as alert as computer people. But I knew that; thats part of why I wrote the book. Anybody is welcome to use anything from this series in any way they like. Please dont bug me with requests for permission. Hack away. Do credit the BBC, who put considerable time and talent into the project. Historic note: this was one of the first television productions made entirely in digital shot digital, edited digital. The project wound up with not enough money, so digital was the workaround. The camera was so small that we seldom had to ask pe