In Building Culture, the basic assumption is that the city, including its inhabitants, forms an intelligent system, an architecture suspended between the human mind and the world of which we are part. Intelligence and meaning are given pragmatist definitions: "Intelligence is the ability to interact appropriately with the world, and meaning is the accomplishment of such interation" (Peirce 1955:23-41). With this assumption as vantage point, Building Culture discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural labor, the labour of the architect as well as that of...