1. How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand - 1 of 6 - “Flow”

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as a view of buildings as dynamic systems, with lessons for software architecture and long-term maintenance.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

Stewart Brand

Topic

how buildings change over time

Format

documentary

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

8

HN mentions in dataset

10

Recommendation years in dataset

2013–2020

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• How Buildings Learn, based on (and in some ways better than) the Stewart Brand book. Definite takeaways for software architecture, and includes appearances by Christopher Alexander, a key instigator of the patterns movement. Produced by the BBC in the 90's, now on Youtube - [VIDEO] …

• Ah, yes, I watched this series a few years ago and just realized that it may have inspired my post above a bit. PS: I just shamelessly throw in another excellent BBC documentary series here: How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand [0]. I sometimes see …

• Stewart Brand has done lots of good stuff. My favorite is the 6 part BBC series on "How Buildings Learn". It really opened my eyes to the importance of buildings. Very relevant to the frequent discussions here about zoning, design, etc. But also just an …