Friedrich --

An excellent posting by Chis Bertram at Crooked Timber about Stewart Brand's essential book How Buildings Learn, here.

Sample passage:

Most basically the book is about adaptation and flexibility and the need to design in ways that permit change. Most architects build to a conception of a building’s purpose. But two things are likely to happen after a building gets built: people start to use it in ways that the architect didn’t predict (will the building help or hinder their preferred ways of working or living) or the building gets sold and used for some quite different purpose. As Brand puts it “All buildings are predictions. All buildings are wrong.”

Link found thanks to David Sucher (here).

Best,

Michael