Shearing Layers

Shearing layers is a concept coined by architect Frank Duffy, which was later elaborated by Stewart Brand in his book, How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Brand, 1994), and refers to buildings as composed of several layers of change. The concept has been adopted by a number of technology vendors to also describe the different layers of systems within an organisation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_layers

inspiration for:

https://jods.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/issue3-brand/release/2

more:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Timeless_Way_of_Building
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pattern_language
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_level