book recommendation ⁽⁴⁾

If you’re interested in the early history of computing, check out Turing’s Cathedral by George Dyson. It covers an interesting middle phase between the original electronic digital computers and the wide commercialization of computers in the late 50s. Specifically it examines the people and development…

The American internment of Japanese Americans during WWII is one of the many shameful things in my country‘s past that I didn’t really learn about growing up. Only when I moved near a park in Seattle that was on land taken from interned people did…

If you’re interested in know “How did we get here?” then I highly recommend Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel by Frances and Joseph Gies. It dispels the myth that Europe of 500 - 1500 CE was some mud-filled backwater just waiting for some brilliant Renaissance thinkers…

I thought I’d share a book recommendation: Developments in Structural Form by Rowland J. Mainstone. While definitely a textbook from some intro architecture class, it’s also part history book and part architectural engineering primer. It traces how new techniques and materials were put into practice…