A key message in How Buildings Learn (Stuart Brand, 1994) is that the best architecture is both simple and adaptable, with the now well-known example of MIT’s original neoclassical structures. Our work in renewal and re-use has ranged in scale from a whole campus, the transformation of Tacoma’s historic Warehouse District into a new campus for the University of Washington, to mid-century buildings like UCLA’s Faculty Center. In both cases the existing fabric had “good bones”, the essential re-usability that Stewart Brand argued for.