How Buildings Learn TV series – Jason Kottke

…is a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0 edited by Jason Kottke since March 1998 (archives).

In 1997, the BBC aired a three-hour documentary based on Stewart Brand’s book, How Buildings Learn. Brand has posted the whole program on Google Video in six 30-minute parts: part one, part two, part three, part four, part five, part six.

If you’re hesitant about whether to watch the series or not, check out this two-minute appetizer of perhaps the meatiest tidbit in the book: the oak beam replacement plan for the dining hall of New College, Oxford. (via smashing telly)

Source: http://www.kottke.org/08/08/how-buildings-learn-tv-series