How Buildings Learn - the full TV series online
This solves a personal 10 yr quest; Stewart Brand's BBC TV series from 1997 'How Buildings Learn' has been uploaded.
The fantastic curated Smashing Telly spotted them and wrote a really good introduction to the series"
"...Almost no computer software is actually designed by ‘architects’ who sit in between the people who commission software and the people who build it. An architect takes requirements and re-interprets, adds, combines, eliminates and prioritizes them into a ‘holistic’ design rather than a collection of requirements. In software, feature decisions are usually made by marketing departments (product marketing people who create requirements documents, PRDs) who pass them to the engineering department. In architecture this would be like someone who wanted to a building going straight to the contractor. This happens with tract housing, and the result is crappy, like the vast majority of current software..."
(Via Kottke.)
