More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style.
It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. There has not been such a book treating the very essence of architecture.
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Preface by the Prince of Wales.
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More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style. It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. There has not been such a book treating the very essence of architecture. Preface by the Prince of Wales.
Books on wall street. Additional Information Format Paperback Pages 278 Publisher ISI Books What They're Saying. 'A Theory of Architecture demonstrates how mathematics and the social sciences offer keys to designing a humane architecture. In this brilliant tome Salingaros explains why many modern buildings are neither beautiful nor harmonious and, alternatively, how architects and patrons can employ scale, materials and mathematical logic to design structures which are exciting, nourishing, and visually delightful. Anyone who is interested in how architecture and culture are intimately linked should put this on their reading list.” — Duncan G. Stroik, Professor of Architecture, University of Notre Dame 'Salingaros focuses on the question of why, even in societies that often embrace the silly and the stupid, the public still mostly prefers traditional architechture.' — David Brussat, The Providence Journal 'Architecture, Salingaros argues, is governed by universal and intuitively understood principles, which have been exemplified by all successful styles and in all civilizations that have left a record of themselves in their buildings.
The solution is not to return to the classical stylesthe solution is to return to first principles and build within their constraints' — Roger Scruton, The New Criterion 'A Theory of Architecture confronts difficult issues head on. Salingaros explores ways to clarify and formalize our understanding of aesthetic forms in the built environment, using mathematics, thermodynamics, Darwinism, complexity theory and cognitive sciences. He postulates that cross-cultural universals derived from scaling rules in nature govern human appreciation of architecture. Salingaros’ remarkable observations suggest that concepts of complexity and scale can someday provide a full-bodied explanation for both the practice and the appreciation of architecture.' — Kim Sorvig, Architecture & Planning, University of New Mexico “This recently-published text has already been adopted for courses in architecture schools. A fundamental text, among the most significant of the past several years.'
— Vilma Torselli, Architect Artist and Critic 'A Theory of Architecture is not a cook book. It does not tell architects how to compose a building in several easy steps. Rather, it gives architects permission to do what we would automatically do if we had not been taught the style rules and the worldview of the ‘Modern Movement’ and its successors What a breakthrough! What a book!' — Jaap Dawson, Architect and Assistant Professor, University of Delft 'In the future this work, along with Christopher Alexander’s, will be standard texts for Architecture 101. This book has been handled with great care to help its readers understand the complex issues while at the same time making it accessible to the largest potential audience. It clearly articulates how we have arrived at a modern world tendency away from living structure and toward non-living structure.
I feel fortunate to live in a time that I believe will be the beginning of a great sea change toward living structure and a more wholesome environment. Salingaros for his efforts toward that movement' — Dean A. Dykstra, architect and planner, Iowa City 'A New Vitruvius for 21st-Century Architecture and Urbanism?
A Theory Of Architecture
The work of Nikos A. Salingaros marks a true beginning for seriously regaining what cultures and societies have lost throughout the years through the work of many architects, urbanists, and decision makers.
Nikos Salingaros’ work is emerging to offer new theories that if adopted, adapted, and practiced, will shape a better environment for the future. Undoubtedly, Vitruvius gave us the ABC of architecture, but someone should have continued the alphabet of architectural theories.
It is my conviction that Nikos Salingaros offers a new alphabet that corresponds to the demands placed upon the profession by contemporary societies. His work meets the requirements of architecture and urbanism in the 21st century. This is a marvelous piece and it should be a required reading in theory courses introduced in both undergraduate and graduate programs of architecture worldwide.' — Ashraf Salama, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture ISBN ISBN954073 Eligible for Readers Club Discount Yes.
Paperback: 278 pages Publisher: Umbau-Verlag, Solingen, Germany (August 2006) ISBN: 3-937954-07-4 Product Dimensions: 16.5 x 23.5 cm; 6.75 x 9.5 inches The US distributor is, with online retail sales; for wholesale orders please call 800-621-2736. All major US bookstores are now carrying this book, including, and. European readers can buy the english version in a slighly different format (same text) directly from the online bookstore, which ships wholesale and retail orders from Germany. The Persian version is available in bookstores in Iran, and is published by the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Center for Architectural and Urban Studies and Research, 2008. This book is already being used for courses in architecture schools. ' In a sane world, Prof. Salingaros would be sitting on architecture-prize and architecture-school boards, and would be fending off all-too-frequent requests from major magazines and newspapers for his opinion, insights and judgment.'
This book presents some ideas I have explored in trying to discover the basis for architectural design. The search has led me to apply science and mathematics to architecture, which has proved remarkably fruitful in establishing new and useful results. Most architects know of the historical application of ancient mathematics such as proportional ratios - yet it is not this type of mathematics that actually governs general architectural form.
Rather, it is the more recently developed mathematics of fractals, information theory, and complexity. I have presented these results in the most simplified manner possible, to be useful to practicing architects as well as to students with very modest mathematical skills. Each book chapter consists of one of my published papers in architecture.
This collection of research articles can be used as a textbook for architectural design, or as supplementary material. Individual chapters have indeed been used in this manner in many schools since their initial publication. Their main message is that architecture should be based on principles that stand scientific scrutiny and experimental test. I present new results, so no similar treatment of the principles underlying architectural design exists at the present time. My own architectural formation is due to my long involvement with Christopher Alexander in helping him to edit The Nature of Order, so, naturally, my work is profoundly influenced by his.
'A Theory of Architecture' has its own, Archnet-IJAR, Volume 1, Issue 2, July 2007 PDF., A Weekly Dose of Architecture, July 2007, November 2006. Reprinted in part in (in french), August 2006.
(in italian), August 2006. Read extracts on and on (forthcoming).
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