My understanding of maintenance: More: capable to continue to evolve Less: contain at status quo / steady state Related to … More
Category: Built environment
What can a Building Technologist do about Climate Change?
Title inspired by Bret Victor’s piece “What can a Technologist do about Climate Change?“ Something that has been swirling in … More
Fragmentation in the building industry
An excellent framing of the fragmentation in the building industry can be found in Dana A Sheffer’s 2010 dissertation on … More
The kind of problem a building is
Concluding her famous book, Jane Jacobs writes: “Cities happen to be problems in organized complexity.” From sidewalks of access to … More
My 2018 reading list
Books (with sprinkling of articles & podcasts) that have stuck with me throughout 2018 Scale by G West Engineering Systems by … More
TRIP NOTES: CHINA [Dec 2018]
Rough notes from a weeklong revisit to China: Beijing, Wuhan, Changsha, Kunming. Mix of travel tips and reflection, with summarizing … More
How Buildings Learn: Beijing Hutongs (thoughts on the unpublished chapter)
The hutongs north of Beijing’s Forbidden City have always been my favorite part of the city. Narrow alleyways, curving about, … More
Making infrastructure sexy
On Infrastructure The Temple of Heaven, a favorite site for a kid living in 1990s Beijing, captured my imagination with … More
Dialogues on Infrastructure
The following is an elaborated transcription from an in-person dialogue on Infrastructure. For a more navigable version of this content, … More