Twelve Lectures On Architecture
Twelve Lectures On Architecture
Algorithmic Sustainable Design
Nikos A. Salingaros
Umbau-Verlag, Solingen; 1ª, 2010
edition: english
252 p
ISBN
978-3-937954-03-5
about the book
During the Spring semester of 2008, Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros presented a course on Algorithmic Sustainable Design. This course was broadcast live to participating institutions around the world, and the videos were later archived for permanent free access. Most of the course material is original, and includes topics introduced into architecture for the first time. Topics covered include fractals, cellular automata, emergent phenomena, symmetries, scaling, codes, and networks. This innovative research program ties complexity theory to architectural and urban patterns. The high degree of organized complexity found in the greatest creations of humanity -- buildings, cities, artworks, and artifacts -- depends on both content (information) and relationships (organization). Biological algorithms such as fractal generation, cellular automata, and structure-preserving transformations lead to vernacular and traditional architectural and urban forms, which are therefore the genuine product of evolutionary development.
Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros is a professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is a world-famous Urbanist and Architectural Theorist. He is affiliated with the architecture faculties of the Universities of Delft, Holland, Rome III, Italy, and Querétaro, Mexico, and supervises thesis students from all around the world on architectural and urban topics. Dr. Salingaros is one of the founders of the new discipline of “Biophilic Design”, which investigates how the design of buildings creates more healing environments. He is a member of the International Network for Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU) College of Traditional Practitioners, the Institute for Classical Architecture, and is on the INTBAU Committee of Honor. He was selected as one of UTNE's "50 Visionaries who are changing your world" in November 2008.
about the author
Nikos A. Salingaros
Nikos A. Salingaros nasceu na Austrália e foi criado na Grécia e nas Bahamas. Estudou na University of Miami e na State University of New York - Stony Brook, e é professor de matemática da University of Texas desde 1983
