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danielbernier 's review for:
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
by Stewart Brand
I really enjoyed this book. The author wrote on his website that some people tend to read this and relate it to software development - I'm one of them.
Five stars, because I find myself telling people about this book a lot. It comes up in conversations about homes, design, psychology, and yes, software design. It has a great list of recommended reading at the end. The pictures are wonderful, and the wide format allows for lots of side-by-side comparison.
If I would take away a star, it would be because of the chapters where he complains about magazine architecture: designing a building not so it's livable, but so it looks great in photos. I don't like that practice either, but the whining got tiresome.
But push through those sections, and enjoy the rest of it.
Five stars, because I find myself telling people about this book a lot. It comes up in conversations about homes, design, psychology, and yes, software design. It has a great list of recommended reading at the end. The pictures are wonderful, and the wide format allows for lots of side-by-side comparison.
If I would take away a star, it would be because of the chapters where he complains about magazine architecture: designing a building not so it's livable, but so it looks great in photos. I don't like that practice either, but the whining got tiresome.
But push through those sections, and enjoy the rest of it.