Twelve Lectures On Architecture

Algorithmic Sustainable Design

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Architecture and urbanism are formulated here as applications of computations. By applying cutting-edge mathematical techniques to architectural and urban design, a new toolbox is presented to design practitioners. Each step in the design process, on every scale, corresponds to a computation. This series of lectures brings together geometrical constructs such as Cellular Automata, recursive growth, the Fibonacci sequence, fractals, universal scaling, etc. Few of these topics are currently taught in architecture schools, nor are simple descriptions available for non-mathematicians. All of these disparate techniques are woven together into one useful design tool, which can be used by both architecture students and practitioners. The design methodology combines structural rules with a free design/computational method that liberates a designer from any previously held design dogma.

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 much 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.

Umbau-Verlag
ISBN 978-3-937954-03-5, Paperback, 252 Seiten