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Shearing Layers

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Complex structures often tear themselves apart.
Different layers transform themselves at different speeds.
Flexible artefacts maintain an articulation between the layers.
source: Stewart Brand, How Buildings Learn.
more The notion of shearing layers is contained in the Administrative Guidelines for Pima Community College

Clues in the search for ever more valuable separations of concern (pdf)
more "Shearing Layers" is cited as an architectural pattern by Grady Booch (Rational) and Brian Foote.  For an elegant description, see ShearingLayers

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More Material

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Work in Progress:
  • Towards a Foundational Theory of Architecture
  • Differentiated Rates of Change in Regulated Markets
more http://www.binginit.com/loudpaper/article.php?id=33
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