Greek-Australian-American mathematician, architecture theorist and polymath
Nikos Salingaros
Born
1952 (age 71–72)
Perth, Australia
Nationality
Australian
Alma mater
Stony Brook University
Scientific career
Institutions
University of Texas at San Antonio
Thesis
Certain algebraic structures and their applications to physics(1978)
Nikos Angelos Salingaros (Greek: Νίκος Άγγελος Σαλίγκαρος; born 1952) is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design philosophy. He has been a close collaborator of the architect Christopher Alexander, with whom Salingaros shares a harsh critical analysis of conventional modern architecture. Like Alexander, Salingaros has proposed an alternative theoretical approach to architecture and urbanism that is more adaptive to human needs and aspirations, and that combines rigorous scientific analysis with deep intuitive experience.
Salingaros published substantive research on algebras, mathematical physics, electromagnetic fields, and thermonuclear fusion before turning his attention to architecture and urbanism. Salingaros still teaches mathematics, and is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He is also on the Architecture faculties of universities in Italy, Mexico, and The Netherlands.
Nikos Angelos Salingaros (Greek: Νίκος Άγγελος Σαλίγκαρος; born 1952) is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural...
Rybczynski, Witold (2 December 2009). "Do You See a Pattern?". Slate. NikosSalingaros, "A Theory of Architecture", Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, 2009 Alexander...
social significance. Kenneth Frampton finds it "elitist and detached". NikosSalingaros calls deconstructivism a "viral expression" that invades design thinking...
enamored of the structure. Mathematician and architectural theorist NikosSalingaros has harshly criticized the Stata Center: An architecture that reverses...
A Theory of Architecture is a book on architecture by NikosSalingaros, published in 2006 by Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, Germany ISBN 3-937954-07-4. Cover...
York: Simon and Schuster. Salingaros 2008, pp. 243, 260. Salingaros 2008, pp. 243–245. Salingaros 2008, p. 249. Salingaros 2008, p. 259. Schubert, Karen...
Salingaros, Nikos. "Architecture, Patterns, and Mathematics". Nexus Network Journal. Retrieved 9 October 2015. Updated version of Salingaros, Nikos (April...
1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology. Rizzoli, 1993. ISBN 0-8478-1511-0 NikosSalingaros. "A Theory of Architecture". Umbau-Verlag, 2006. ISBN 3-937954-07-4...
architecture theorist NikosSalingaros criticizes its anti-regional and anti-traditional tendencies derived from Critical Theory. NikosSalingaros states that "In...
Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ""Life and the geometry of the environment", NikosSalingaros, November 2010" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 October...
for intellectual purposes. Most currently, the Greek mathematician NikosSalingaros claims that the New Acropolis Museum clashes with the traditional architecture...
edge of the city. The scientist Maitri Singhai and the mathematician NikosSalingaros have created a new school of urban morphology based on morphogenesis...
knowledge of its mathematics. The mathematician and architectural theorist NikosSalingaros suggests that the "powerful presence" (aesthetic effect) of a "great...
University of Nebraska Press. "A brief history of Peer-to-peer Urbanism", NikosSalingaros and Federico Mena-Quintero, October 2010 Grant, J. (2006) Planning...
the endorsement of the views of Christopher Alexander, Léon Krier, NikosSalingaros), to critiques of Contemporary art (Jean Clair, Marc Fumaroli, Aude...
contributed as a consultant to UN-Habitat. He is also coauthor, with NikosSalingaros, of the 2014 book Design for a Living Planet, a critique of conventional...
are: A Pattern Language (volume 2) The Oregon Experiment (volume 3) Salingaros, Nikos. "Some Notes on Christopher Alexander". Retrieved 14 June 2010. Alexander...
engineer; designed the first commercial penicillin production plant NikosSalingaros (born 1952), mathematician, physicist, architectural theorist, urban...
carried out by Stephen R. Kellert in the Biophilia hypothesis, and in by NikosSalingaros and others in the book "Biophilic Design". Architect Architectural...
rights activist; former City of San Antonio Council member, 1997–2001 NikosSalingaros mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory David...
& Current Works 2011. Images Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86470-451-8. Salingaros, Nikos A.; Mehaffy, Michael (30 May 2017). Design for a Living Planet: Settlement...
Classical Architecture movement–including such exponents as Léon Krier, NikosSalingaros, and James Stevens Curl, as well as from American conservative outlets...
Seclusion". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 7 May 2018. Salingaros, Nikos A. (June 1999). "Architecture, Patterns, and Mathematics". Nexus Network...
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