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Re:The Bug in the Physical Building by samscully on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @08:57AM (#11627974)
For anyone interested in this sort of thing "Why Buildings Fall Down" [1] is a good related book. I did civil engineering at university and you'd be surprised how many beautiful and interesting buildings only ended up that way because of constraints forced on the engineers and architects by the surrounding environment.

[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Why-Buildings-Fall-Down-Structures/...

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Re:The Bug in the Physical Building by thesehands on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:38AM (#11628643)
Likewise "To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure" [1].

[1]https://www.amazon.co.uk/Forgive-Design-Understanding-Failur...

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Re:The Bug in the Physical Building by cgriswald on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @10:24PM (#11633556)
> ... you'd be surprised how many beautiful and interesting buildings only ended up that way because of constraints forced on the engineers and architects by the surrounding environment.

I recently did a major remodel of my home and many of the decisions made were ultimately directed by things outside my control (e.g. physics, availability of materials, environmental conditions, etc.), which resulted in me getting not exactly what I originally wanted, but yielding a result better than my original imagining.

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