Nikos Angelos Salingaros is a mathematician and polymath known for his work on urban theory, architectural theory, complexity theory, and design philosophy.
21 Facts About Nikos Salingaros
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Nikos Salingaros has been a close collaborator of the architect Christopher Alexander, with whom Salingaros shares a harsh critical analysis of conventional modern architecture.
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Nikos Salingaros published substantive research on algebras, mathematical physics, electromagnetic fields, and thermonuclear fusion before turning his attention to architecture and urbanism.
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Nikos Salingaros still teaches mathematics, and is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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Nikos Salingaros is on the Architecture faculties of universities in Italy, Mexico, and The Netherlands.
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Nikos Salingaros began working in the arts as a painter, but soon switched to the sciences.
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Nikos Salingaros obtained a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Miami, Florida.
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Nikos Salingaros took his Master's in 1974 and Doctorate in 1978 at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Nikos Salingaros joined the Mathematics faculty of the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1983, where he remains today.
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Nikos Salingaros' writings helped to introduce two key concepts in urban morphology, fractals and networks.
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Nikos Salingaros defines "bad architecture" as that which makes people uncomfortable or physically ill, and which pursues formal or ideological concerns instead of adapting to nature and to the needs of ordinary human beings.
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Nikos Salingaros has had a significant theoretical influence on several major figures in architecture.
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Nikos Salingaros contributed to the New Athens Charter of 2003, which is meant to replace the original 1933 Athens Charter written principally by the highly influential modernist architect-planner Le Corbusier.
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Nikos Salingaros is involved in forming a community that applies analogous techniques of File sharing and Open-source software from computer science to urbanism.
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Nikos Salingaros has never written a true software paper, yet two of his papers are quoted by the CS community.
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Nikos Salingaros identifies two forms of connectivity when discussing pattern languages: external connectivity and internal connectivity.
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Nikos Salingaros implies that the richness of connections between levels and within levels in a pattern language is a factor in determining a language's internal validity.
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In "The Information Architecture of Cities" Nikos Salingaros defined the useful notion of "fractal loading", later picked up by Richard Veryard, Phil Jones, and others in Computer Science.
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Nikos Salingaros introduced a model of Complexity by using an analogy with thermodynamic quantities in physics, later developed in collaboration with the Computer Scientist Allen Klinger.
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Nikos Salingaros has been a harsh critic of deconstructivism in architecture, and its uncritical application of the philosophy of post-structuralism.
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Nikos Salingaros employs the meme model earlier introduced by Richard Dawkins to explain the transmission of ideas.