WHO WROTE IT

I am curious,   

I am serious. 

Who wrote the building code? Tell us more about the authors.

What are their names? Where did they live?  How did they live? What else did they do with their lives? What did they build if they knew so much about designing buildings? What else did they write? anything interesting? 

I know there have been building codes in the world off and on for ages, in the US here since a little before 1900, maybe longer.

I know the building code is written and revised and there are lots of editions. There is an organization, I know they have a process. I know they have our best interests and safety in mind. I read their work, I enjoy learning it, I trust it.

We have lots of legal documents with interesting authors. We have access to many legislators’ biographies.

What happens to your architecture though I wonder, without an author, if you follow, strictly and exclusively, a text written by an anonymous committee, what will your building be?  What else is there you can add to the code? What else should you contribute? 

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