Nikos Salingaros

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Full Name	Nikos Salingaros
Occupation	Architect
Date Of Birth	Jun 17, 1952(1952-06-17)
Age	72
Birthplace	Perth
Country	Australia
Birth City	Western Australia
Horoscope	Gemini

Nikos Salingaros Biography

Nikos Salingaros is one of the most popular and richest Architect who was born on June 17, 1952 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia. Nikos Angelos Salingaros (Greek: Nikos Aggelos Saligkaros ; born 1952 in Perth, Australia) is an Australian mathematician and polymath who is well- known for his research on architecture theory, urban theories complexity theory, as well as design philosophy. He has been a long-time collaborator with the architectural genius Christopher Alexander, with whom Salingaros has a sharp critical review of the conventional architecture of today. Similar to Alexander, Salingaros has proposed an alternative approach to urban and architectural design that is more responsive to human desires and needs and that blends an rigorous scientific approach with a deep personal experience.

Salingaros helped to draft his contribution to New Athens Charter of 2003 that is intended as a replacement for the 1933 Athens Charter written principally by the influential modernist architect and planner Le Corbusier. The blueprint separated urban functions and played a role in creating post-war urban typologies, like the monoculture or sprawl. Through this , and other writings Salingaros tried to reformulate suburbia and to connect US as well as European cities on a human scale. This work is taken as being in line with that of the New Urbanism movement to replace sprawling developments with walkable, compact towns and cities.

Salingaros has been included in “50 VISIONARIES who are changing your world”, published in the November–December 2008 edition of Utne Reader. This is the first follow-up of the 2001 Utne Reader book “(65) VISIONARIES: people and ideas to change your life”, which included Jane Jacobs, Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Muhammad Yunus, Fritjof Capra, Edward Goldsmith, and William McDonough.

Salingaros has had a significant theoretical influence on several major figures in architecture. Christopher Alexander, author of the seminal treatises A Pattern Language and Notes on the Synthesis of Form, describes Salingaros’ influence: “In my view, the second person who began to explore the deep connection between science and architecture was Nikos Salingaros, one of the four Katarxis editors. He had been working with me helping me edit material in The Nature of Order, for years, and at some point—in the mid- nineties I think—began writing papers looking at architectural problems in a scientific way. Then by the second half of the nineties he began making important contributions to the building of this bridge, and to scientific explorations in architecture which constituted a bridge.”

The End of Tall Buildings (2001) co-authored by James Kunstler, argued that the era of skyscrapers is coming to an end and 9/11 is as the start of the decline of the modernist urban typologies that dominate urban form. Although the world hasn’t been able to stop building skyscrapers, it is an one of the more popular and controversial essays on the subject. In the context of this essay, Benjamin Forgey of The Washington Post wrote: “What many are feeling today goes right to the marrow: the fear of being a target. And who today can deny that tall buildings such as the World Trade Center towers make ideal targets?”

Nikos Salingaros Net Worth

Nikos Salingaros is one of the richest Architect from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nikos Salingaros 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Salingaros was a member of the Mathematics faculty in the University of Texas at San Antonio in 1983. He is there where the professor is currently. In the early 1990s, Salingaros began to publish his own work on urban and architectural forms. In 1997, he received the honor of the very first award ever given from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to conduct research on architectural issues. He was appointed as a member of the Committee of Honor, International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism (INTBAU) as well as for the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners.

It is argued that the Structure of Pattern Languages (2000) The book argues the notion that patterns (a concept that is central to the movement towards design patterns in CS and created by Alexander) provide details about the regular design solutions as well as human activities. Methods of linking patterns verify the validity of a Pattern language, while dismissing the stylistic rules and antipatterns as unreliable. E. Todd, E. Kemp and C. Phillips said: “Salingaros shows that a loose collection of patterns is not a system, because it lacks connections, implying that the quality and nature of the connections between patterns is what determines whether a collection is a language or not. He identifies two forms of connectivity when discussing pattern languages: external connectivity and internal connectivity. These two forms of connection are central to validating a pattern language. 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.”

The Information Architecture of Cities (co-authored with L. Andrew Coward, 2004) Ref. describes cities as systems of informational architecture, in which high-level functionality separates the system into communicating modules. Information exchange in urban systems includes visual input from the environment, personal contact, telecommunications, and the movement of people. Journeys by residents through a city accomplish a primary information exchange (the interaction that is the intent of the journey). But ideally, journeys have secondary, serendipitous information exchange. For example, a pedestrian on the way to work visits shops, sees advertisements, buys a newspaper, encounters a friend and has a quick word. The virtue of cities is this dense, fractal, multilayered information exchange. It is closely related to the generation of economic wealth and culture within cities.

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A Theory of Architecture, a collection of previously published papers, describes a set of guidelines for design, giving scientific principles that link forms to human sensibilities. In it he describes a practical architectural system in a form that any practicing architect can use. The work incorporates Salingaros’ observations of the greatest buildings of the past, which he defines as those that are the most responsive to human sensibilities. While this method and its theoretical underpinning support traditional architectural typologies, Salingaros emphasizes that architects should be free to adapt their ideas to particular situations, leaving decisions to be influenced by the environment and needs of the project. He explores questions such as: How can ornament be justified, and why is it necessary? What are the ratios and hierarchies that promote neighborliness and beauty? What is it about our biological nature — perhaps even about the nature of matter itself — that makes us feel one thing in the presence of one kind of structure and something else in the presence of another? Speaking as a mathematician, he proposes a theoretical framework to answer these questions.

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Nikos Ranked on the list of most popular Architect. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Nikos Salingaros celebrates birthday on June 17 of every year.