How Buildings Learn A Book by Stewart Brand Shearing layers of change State of the WindowsThe modern infrastructural idealThe Metabolist philosophy timearchitecturebuildingchange
Pictures and words He had only one explanation for this fact: things have to be transmitted this way because they were made up from the pure life, and this kind of life cannot be captured in pictures or words. Because people become fascinated with pictures and words, and wind up forgetting the Language of the World. Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist Words and Images