Algorithmic Sustainable Design: Twelve Lectures on Architecture - Softcover

Nikos A. Salingaros

Softcover

ISBN 10: 993762309X ISBN 13: 9789937623094

Publisher: Vajra books, 2013

Synopsis

"Algorithmic Sustainable Design" contains lecture notes on Architecture and Urbanism that accompany a series of twelve one-hour videos. While the lecture notes can be read independently, they are very useful in following the video course, which is available free online. This material applies cutting-edge mathematical techniques to architectural and urban design. The course material is original, and includes innovative topics such as algorithms, fractals, cellular automata, complexity, emergence, information theory, symmetries, scaling, codes, and networks, here introduced into architecture and urbanism for the first time. Students from around the world can now learn the intelligent basis for architecture, and use it to re-establish adaptability and genuine sustainability.

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About the Author

"One of 50 visionaries who are changing your world." -- Utne Reader. Ranked 11th among "The top 100 urban thinkers of all time". -- Planetizen. Nikos Angelos Salingaros 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 and computer software pioneer 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. (from Wikipedia).

From the Inside Flap

"Biology and architecture intersect in mankind's unconscious perceptions ... in ways that cause traditional architecture to be perceived intuitively by most people as more natural and life-affirming than modern architecture ... the importance to change the world might be an additional incitement." -- David Brussat, Providence Journal.

"The new book is like a Swiss Army Knife of tools for creating ultimate human habitats. It is in many ways a compression of this work by Alexander. A better introduction you can't get!" -- Øyvind Holmstad, Energy Bulletin.

"From architectural megalomania to media culture to the habit of cutting design and construction costs by ignoring the obvious ... modernism acts like a computer virus that erases data banks and substitutes something much simpler and less functional, with collective social memory as the 'data bank' in question." -- James Kalb, Turnabout.

"A fantastic manual of architectural algorithms explaining exactly why some designs make us feel at home on this planet and why others offend our neurology." -- James Howard Kunstler, Orion Magazine.

"The author presents mathematical concepts and computer technologies: fractals, cellular automata, genetic algorithms. He shows us the beauty of mathematics through its usage. Formulating his message through a broad spectrum of topics, Salingaros appears to be a true Renaissance figure." -- Jadwiga Zarnowiecka, Architektura & Bisnes.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vajra books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 993762309X
• ISBN 13: 9789937623094
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 252