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By contrast, think of enduring historical areas in London, Paris, or Rome, for example. There, two-millennia-old architecture has been repeatedly revived very successfully, and then endured over centuries: Romanesque, Renaissance, Georgian, Victorian, and Edwardian. These buildings, most already lasting usefully for over a century or more, are much loved and still used today — indeed, they comprise some of the most expensive and sought-after real estate in the world. But under the strange ideological radicalism of Modernism, we must never, ever, build such places again! Instead we are condemned to live in a world bereft of pattern, shorn of history and humanity, left only with cold industrial objects. We are promised that someone with sufficient skill (the genius architect) has somehow made them compositionally handsome, but that hope is not enough. Methods of architectural design — especially those that revive or re-incorporate any motifs and geometric characteristics that might ha...

The analogy to medical science is especially apt. This application of settlement science must be implemented with art and craft, just as the science of medicine must be applied by medical practitioners with art and craft. Like the profession of medicine, it must be rooted in evidence-based methods, and it must have as its foundation a professional standard of care for the wellbeing of others. But this implies a deep re-evaluation, and a reform of failing professional models. It implies a real revolution, in methodology, in technology, in conceptions of “modernity” — and ultimately, in the very idea of design. What are these insights from the sciences? We (a physicist-mathematician and an urban philosopher) summarize ten of them, which are discussed in more detail, along with others, in the new book Design for a Living Planet . © Nikos Salingaros 1. Complex Adaptive Systems A key lesson for designers of all kinds is that product design can’t really be separated from environ...

When Nikos Salingaros looks at the United States’ mesh of cities and suburbs, he sees a geometry problem: The scale accommodates cars, not people. “It makes humans into a new race of inhumans,” says Salingaros, a mathematics professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio. His uniquely scientific perspective allows the architectural gadfly to tap the latest laboratory findings to explain how our current urban trajectory is not only aesthetically challenged but also unhealthy. He calls for retrofitting the suburbs with mixed-use zoning, pedestrian byways, and public spaces—small interventions that let people move about, interact with nature and neighbors, and stay human. - Nikos A. Salingaros Er det ikke rart, nå har man dratt masse mennesker inn i og omkring Grythengen, for at de skal leve ut den amerikanske drømmen i historiemaleriet vårt, med det resultatet at den viktigste biokulturelle koblingen mellom Toten og Wisconsin, er brutt! Så vi gidder ikke å reise til Wisconsin vi, ...

The modernist approach to design is crude, since it depends upon a dangerous premise: the spontaneous re-invention of architecture by genius designers. Forget evolved solutions to climate, cultural needs, materials, human scale, and other inviolable constraints. Gone is the slow accumulation of adaptive responses, the patient evolutionary correction that produces resilient, complex designs. Modernism is all mental tinker-toy stuff, meant to function for a short while, and then be gone. Here we have transient and wildly expensive consumerism at its worst, played with buildings and pieces of city. The products degrade, get dirty, show their age, and become hated. - Nikos A. Salingaros Ha, ha, det er lenge siden jeg har ledd så godt, falt nesten av stolen😄 I videoen ovenfor nevner Stewart Hicks "The Neverending Story - The Nothing", en filmatisert barnebok, som jeg tror jeg har hørt om, men nå fikk jeg i alle fall slått den opp. The Neverending Story - Wikipedia Definivt en ba...

Den originale illustrasjonen av Salingaros har forsvunnet, så erstatter den med denne, fra Arkitekturopprøret Norge. Å blande former fra naturen med bygninger, kalles på fagspråket for "splicing", en primitiv form for modernistisk arkitektur, som bryter med biofilia. "Splice slug with building." "Brunsneglen er en uønsket fremmedart i Norge. I tillegg er den som kjent et stort irritasjonsmoment for mange norske hageeiere. Sneglen spiser og ødelegger alt man planter, i tillegg formerer den seg i rekordfart. Og den er nesten umulig å bli kvitt.   Derfor valgte regjeringen å bevilge 700 millioner kroner til et nytt kompetansesenter som skal forske på denne arten og forhåpentligvis komme med løsninger på hvordan man kan bli kvitt dette slimete og ekle skadedyret en gang for alle. Like før jul hadde «Brunsneglens hus» i Åndalsnes sin offisielle åpning, og det var 135 forvetningsfulle forskere og professorer som kunne ta sine nye toppmoderne fasiliteter i bruk. Arkit...

Er dette Fossenfeltet, Kapp eller Nordlia? Umulig å se forskjell😕 Kun utdaterte, suburbane typologier overalt😒 Ikke ei levende gate, ingen levende torg, ingen levende grender, kun et uendelig, suburbant dystopia. Foto:  David Shankbone "The dream of owning an isolated country villa surrounded by forest draws people out to suburbia, and cheap land draws developers there. At the same time, lower rents and taxes draw business there, following residential growth. But because the form of suburbia is already established by single-use zoning, businesses must locate away from residential areas, and they must locate where there is enough drive-by traffic to sustain them. Since developers and builders have made fortunes out of selling this defective geometry, they simply keep building what they have done for decades. Government perpetuates sprawl by building roads and infrastructure in an anti-urban pattern." - Nikolas Aron Salingaros Read the essay by Nikos A. Salingaros:  Compact...

Our civilization is intelligent enough to accomplish what it wants. The problem is that a major segment of today's population actually wants dead urban regions. People seek the very things -- such as a simplistic monumental geometry, monofunctional zoning, priority for automobile traffic, fenced-off commercial and residential blocks, and forcing all poor people into huge apartment blocks -- that destroy the life of a city. The poor have picked up the same images, so after moving up in society they inevitably join with other middle-class citizens in killing their city. Urban legislation creates the type of city we have today; a radically different legislation might re-create a living city once again, if people can be convinced that their lives and their children's lives would become better. - Nikos A. Salingaros Real urbanism in Gamla stan, Stockholm! Unfortunately large portions of the population prefer Subexurban Hell or Le Corbusier's machines for living. But there ar...

Tenk å bo her, midt i Gamla stan, med en egen liten park i bakgården. Uten en bil i gatene. Gamla stan, Skandinavias eneste  Village Town ! Biophilia and Healing Environments Biophilia and Healing Environments, a 10-part series in Metropolis. Available together as a booklet both on paper, and online, published by Terrapin Bright Green LLC , New York. Anbefalt lesning for alle som bryr seg om våre byer og tettsteder. Av min gode venn og støttespiller Nikos A. Salingaros. Why we should be living in "living" houses , 6 August 2015. What do light, color, gravity, and fractals have to do with our well-being? 10 August 2015. What kind of design triggers healing? 13 August 2015. Modern architecture tells an incomplete story , 21 August 2015. What do historic buildings say about our connection to the natural world? 28 August 2015. The growing demand for spaces that consider our health , 1 September 2015. Why do we create ornament to mimic nature? 8 Septem...

By Nikos A. Salingaros. I would like to talk a little about the idea promoted by Christopher Alexander, where “making wholeness heals the maker.” This has to do with the act of creation and, in particular, its application in art and the production of artifacts and architecture. It is a fundamental concept in creating small items, but I want to suggest how it applies at every scale. "We humans are constructed with the creative instinct, the need to create wholeness or coherence because it nourishes us, and we practiced this to nourish our bodies and souls for millennia, until “modern” times. Because of propaganda promoting consumerism we have ceased to create, and to generate life. We only consume, i.e., destroy: this is a severe symptom of global unsustainability." Foto: Janne Eikeblad Today we’re talking on an international level of sustainable cities, zoning, urban plans, designs for housing, etc., in order to form our cities in a healthier manner in the new mill...

Nb! Gorgeous new video from old Stockholm further down in the article💖  De siste ti år har Nikos Aron Salingaros vært en av mine store forbilder og trofaste venner, noe han også har vært for det svenske arkitekturupproret, som har stor fremgang. De siste 100 år har verden blitt infiltrert og ødelagt av historiens mest destruktive kult, arkitekturkulten, hvor Stockholm har vært av deres fremste ofre. Men kulten er også i ferd med å legge under seg Mjøslandet, hvor de har erobret Hovdetoppen , Østhøgda og Furnesfjorden med sine kultsymboler. Vil de også erobre Tjuvholmen i Hamar med sin dekonstruktive skyskraper, eller klarer hamarsingene å stå imot sektens hjernevask og gaslighting, i likhet med kultureliten i Fornebulandet? Faller Hamar, faller Mjøslandets siste håp. Les hos Debatt1. Derfor er det med stor tilfredshet jeg konstaterer at Salingaros har mottatt sin velfortjente Stockholm Culture Awards! Den 9 mars 2019 besöker arkitekturkritikern och matematikprofessorn Nik...

Read the article in Swedish translation: - 1900-talets arkitektur som en sekt By Nikos A. Salingaros 1. Introduction. I have found, to my surprise, that architects are not interested in laws of architecture. They prefer to design buildings on the basis of artistic fashion and ephemeral philosophical concerns. The same reaction greeted the efforts of my distinguished colleagues, Christopher Alexander and Léon Krier, to reform architecture as a discipline. Another recent attempt was initiated by Prince Charles. Despite having the vast majority of the British public in agreement with his humane vision of architecture, the Prince's attempt ultimately failed. How does the architectural profession so successfully repel attempts at reform? I believe that the answer is to be found in a system phenomenon. Architecture is a cult, and the last thing a cult wants is to be transformed into a proper scientific discipline. The reason is that the two types of system have very di...