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Salingaros’s way forward
Common/Edge may the most edgy design website because of its willingness to engage traditional viewpoints. Most such sites altogether ignore tradition in architecture. One of its editors, Martin C. Pedersen, has assembled an intriguing digital interview with Nikos Salingaros, the … Continue reading
Alexander’s classical tent
Christopher Alexander – well known for his Pattern Language, his four-volume The Nature of Order, and for his research on the natural creation of form in architecture and digital technology – wrote an excellent open letter to members of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Duany, Bin Jiang, Christopher Alexander, Michael Mehaffy, Nathaniel Walker, Nikos Salingaros, TradArch
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Our buildings, our selves
Ann Sussman, author with Justin Hollander of Cognitive Architecture, has an article in Planning magazine, “Planning for the Subconscious,” that suggests that the millennia-long evolution of how we shape buildings and places placates the inner urges of our minds and … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Development, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, Biology, Biometrics, Boston, Brain, Christopher Alexander, classical architecture, Hancock Tower, Modern Architecture, Neuroscience, Nikos Salingaros, Perception, Science, Trinity Church
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Review of Siegel’s new book
Charles Siegel’s fascinating little book The Humanists Versus the Reactionary Avant Garde warmed my cockles with its picture of Norman Foster’s Gherkin – 30 St. Mary Axe, on Leadenhall Street – thrusting aggressively above a traditional London streetscape. I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Other countries, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Avant Garde, Charles Siegel, Christopher Alexander, Modern Architecture, Nikos Salingaros, The Humanists versus the Reactionary Avant-Garde, traditional architecture
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Fie on a million years!
For his latest piece in CityLab, “Making the Case for Symmetrical Cities,” peripatetic architecture critic Anthony Flint, housed at the Lincoln Institute in Cambridge, does a very nice job adding up the evidence for the superiority of classical and traditional … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Ann Sussman, Anthony Flint, Christopher Alexander, CityLab, Cognitive Architecture, Congress for the New Urbanism, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier, Lincoln Institute, Nikos Salingaros, Vitruvius
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High tech on I-195 corridor
“Display could light former 195 land” Find the typo in the headline above. … Give up? The letter b in “blight” was accidentally dropped. The headline should have read “Display could blight former 195 land.” Seriously, the headline, which appeared … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, I-195 Redevelopment District, Preservation, Providence, Rhode Island, Urbanism and planning
Tagged architecture, Christopher Alexander, Economic Development, I-195 Redevelopment District, Nikos Salingaros, Richard Baccari II, Urban Planning
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Crank up the cliche machine
I am reprinting Denver architect Jeff Sheppard’s reply to my reply to his reply to my post because my host, WordPress.com, supplies no avenue to continue discussions beyond two or three levels, depending on how you count. In Growing dull … Continue reading
“Design for a Living Planet’
In their newly published book, subtitled “Settlement, Science and the Human Future,” authors Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros argue that human well-being, indeed survival here on Earth, requires replacing our overly mechanized, technologized way of life with patterns of living … Continue reading
