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quote_text: "Design came to depend on complex materials and technologies, while general and specialist contractors supplanted local builders. In the process, both professionals and occupiers began to lose insights into how their buildings worked, and how to manage discomfort."
author: "first approach to retrofit | Buildings & Cities"
url: "https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.572?ref=scopeofwork.net#B47"
article_title: "Learning to sail a building: a people"
tags: []
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