As I am on the last few pages of Death and Life, I’m wondering what I should read next. I probably want to read more about emerging/spontaneous order. One book that I thought I had on my Amazon wishlist is How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They’re Built, by Stewart Brand. Judging by its table of contents, it seems very interesting.
Other books that I’m considering:
- John Holland’s Hidden Order: How Adaptation Builds Complexity;
- Stuart Kauffman’s At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-Organization and Complexity;
- Bernard Rudofsky’s Architecture Without Architects: A Shourt Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture;
- Dee Hock’s Birth of the Chaordic Age;
I’m also interested in Thomas Kuhn’s The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. A blurb on its back cover (along with Matt Webb’s recommendation) makes me particularly interested: “Perhaps the best explanation of [the] process of discovery.”
Oh, well.