Nikos Salingaros

Nikos Salingaros has a PhD in physics, is professor of mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is on the faculty of the Building Beauty Master’s Program. He has held guest professorships in architecture at the Delft University of Technology, Tecnológico de Monterrey in Querétaro, Mexico, and Università di Roma III. He is the author of seven monographs and almost 200 research papers, and is known for his original contributions applying mathematics to architecture. He won the 2019 Stockholm Culture Award for Architecture and shared the 2018 Clem Labine Award for Traditional Architecture with Michael W. Mehaffy. In the Planetizen surveys of “The Most Influential Urbanists” of all time, he ranked 11th in 2009 and 26th in 2017.

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Philosophy The Rise of the Architectural Cult [long_description] In Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism, James Stevens Curl argues that modernist architecture is ill-adapted to human needs. Joining his voice with Curl’s, Nikos Salingaros describes how the style became internationally preferred, despite its failings. He argues that modernist architecture spread through the support of powerful institutions.

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