A frozen bureaucracy and a frozen building reinforce each other’s resistance to change. Change is obligatory, since bureaucracies always grow, but responsibility is dispersed and delayed in a maze of anxious responsibility-avoidance, and the building sits heavy and inert. Near any institutional building more than a decade old, you are likely to find a host of clumsy Low Road expediencies—trailers, temporary add-ons, people working in windowless storage rooms, space rented in nearby commercial buildings.
