Feature from Environmental Building News

Future-Proofing Your Building:
Designing for Flexibility and Adaptive Reuse


Some 2,500 years ago, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus made headlines when he proposed that nothing is permanent but change. In his landmark How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, modern-day philosopher Stewart Brand translated Heraclitus’s insight into the language of design: “A building is not something you finish. A building is something you start.”


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