Comme en Architecture, dix ans de langues dites mortes apprises à l'école mais qui demeurent les bases de certaines de nos langues encore usitées de nos jours merci
Discussion
I almost want to learn latin to read things like De Architectura in its original form. I’m super impressed by builders from antiquity. Wondering what can be learned from them. Maybe even in relation to software architecture:
Strength: code quality and robustness
Utility: does the code actually does something useful
Beauty: aesthetics and ux
People were thinking about these things for a long time before us, and the things they build still stand today and are beautiful. We’ve lost a lot of wisdom.
Have you read D’arcy Thompson? I know generally you’re going much further back historically but “On Growth and Form” is a dense dive into the structural design of the natural world.
Only just started reading in this area, appreciate recommendations!
I find this video of a 1957 conversation between Frank Lloyd Wright and Mike Wallace pretty instructive in regard to thinking about building. It even addresses decentralization.
