"A building leads three contradictory lives: as a component of the surrounding community, as habitat and as property.
If you view your house as a home, you''ll adapt it and it will become gradually ever more interesting. If you view it strictly as property, just an investment, it will become ever more standard, to meet the imagined desires of potential buyers. Seeking to be anybodies house it becomes nobodies. All the years of life in the house end up meaning nothing."
Stewart Brand on How Buildings Learn a documentary series based on his book of the same title.
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