''The Culture of Building'' (

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) is a 2006 book by Howard Davis, a professor of architecture at the

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. It describes how buildings throughout the ages and varied settings are products of a building culture – the "coordinated system of knowledge, rules, procedures, and habit that surrounds the building process in a given place and time". Davis suggests that this culture is a cross-global phenomenon in which thousands of buildings are produced through shared and predictable methods of working."The Culture of Building"
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