Journal 8

It is interesting to understand buildings as realized and cultural information that can connect us to reality. According to Borgmann, you must first have a design and the end result may not always be exactly as you planned from the beginning. I have never really thought about buildings as being realized or cultural information. It is interesting, though, because blueprints really are just ideas from one person that are put into action when the building is being built, and therefore connecting the rest of us to reality and the person's ideas.
In earlier discussions and chapters, we were introduced to realizing information in the form of reading and playing. In reading and playing, we use books and CDs to try and relate us to reality. Yet, interestingly, a building does the same thing as books and CDs, which is relate us to reality; they connect us to the ideas that have been formulated in the architect's mind and made into a concrete example of those ideas.
Also, just as with reading, a person can read a story and get particular ideas from it, yet, they can read it again several years later, and take something completely different from it. This is also true with buildings. When a building is first built, people can experience different thoughts about it or it could be used for one purpose, but as time passes, people's feeling and thoughts about the building my change and the use or purpose of the building may also change.