Architecture Here and There

Two illustrations by Salingaros at left, from the book, represent his thinking, in that the top drawing leads to the bottom drawing.

In this latest book of his, Salingaros does me the honor of devoting the rear cover to a a blurb of mine that reads: "The work of Nikos Salingaros shines a light on the instinctive workings of every human's internal architecture critic. His explanation of why certain buildings and places speak to our hearts illuminates many of our old assumptions about taste. With Nikos as our guide, we see through the invisibility of the emperor's new clothes, and we laugh (or cry) all the harder at the joke played on mankind by modern architecture."

Excerpts from some reviews of the book may be read via this link: TLOA-REVIEWS-3.doc

Salingaros is the archetypal deep thinker. Much of his analysis concerns mathematical theory about fractals and other phenomena that characterize what we know about how nature's structure builds as it grows, and how it evolves. There are diagrams and formulae that will titillate the cognitive sense of adventure that animates the minds of many people. For those who see it passing by overhead as a sort of impressive but indecipherable bank of clouds, the explanation in the text is often more than just lucid but invigorating.

That it has the importance to change the world might be an additional incitement to travel into the mind of Nikos Salingaros.

 Tags  Architecture Biology Biophilia David Brussat Fractals Modernism Nikos Salingaros Twelve Lectures on Architecture

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Øyvind Holmstad said:

The first of the three links to your other writings leads not to your article. Can you please relink it?

Link | June 2, 2012 10:01 AM
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