Nikos A. Salingaros MA, PhD, ICTP, ICoH, ICA is the author of “Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction” (2004), “Principles of Urban Structure” (2005), and “A Theory of Architecture” (2006), as well as numerous scientific papers. Both an artist and scientist, he is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is also on the architecture faculties of universities in Holland, Italy, and Mexico. He designed the Commercial Center in Doha, Qatar in collaboration with Hadi Simaan and José Cornelio-da-Silva. Dr. Salingaros’ theoretical work underpins and helps to link new movements in architecture and urbanism, such as New Urbanism, the Network City, Biophilic Design, Self-built Housing, and Sustainable Architecture. He is working with the Peer-to-Peer Foundation to promot../MORE

Nikos A. Salingaros MA, PhD, ICTP, ICoH, ICA is the author of “Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction” (2004), “Principles of Urban Structure” (2005), and “A Theory of Architecture” (2006), as well as numerous scientific papers. Both an artist and scientist, he is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is also on the architecture faculties of universities in Holland, Italy, and Mexico. He designed the Commercial Center in Doha, Qatar in collaboration with Hadi Simaan and José Cornelio-da-Silva. Dr. Salingaros’ theoretical work underpins and helps to link new movements in architecture and urbanism, such as New Urbanism, the Network City, Biophilic Design, Self-built Housing, and Sustainable Architecture. He is working with the Peer-to-Peer Foundation to promote self-built housing for the developing world. Dr. Salingaros collaborated with Christopher Alexander, helping to edit the four-volume “The Nature of Order” during its twenty-five-year gestation. In recognition of his efforts to understand architecture using scientific thinking, he was awarded the first grant ever for research on architecture by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in 1997. Dr. Salingaros is a member of the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners, and is on the INTBAU Committee of Honor. Dr. Salingaros was included as one of the “50 Visionaries” selected by the UTNE Reader in 2008.
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