The knowledge system for architecture has long come from the historical, philosophical, and social sources. Now it is coming from AI, biology, mathematics, and neuroscience. This body of discovered and tested knowledge remains outside the dominant architectural culture. There are several methods of data gathering for adaptive design. Cumulative findings include design patterns, eye tracking, visual attention scans, information compression …
Popular architectural philosophy has, for at least the past century and a half, been dominated in nearly all respects by the oft repeated phrase ‘form follows function’. The truistic nature of this saying has led to its extreme dominance in the world of contemporary architecture, as it is indeed no simple task to argue that the form of a structure …
After decades of being ignored, the concept of beauty, as understood by the non-architect, has recently been making a comeback in architecture, not so much in the practice itself, as in appeals for design solutions that are more human-centered and not dictated by abstract principles. Architectural beauty needs to be evaluated from its effects on human health. This study discusses …
Good news everyone! We can fire the architects! That much-hated subset of humanity who have inflicted banality and cheap unpleasantness on the rest of us for nearly a century can finally be chucked into the dustbin of history. As Nikos Salingaros reports in The Critic, Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revealing what experts deny, exposing the stubborn ignorance of the architectural profession. Basically, humans don’t …
This dark era of treating people as social insects may be ending.
After decades of being ignored, the concept of beauty, as understood by the non-architect, has recently been making a comeback in architecture, not so much in the practice itself, as in appeals for design solutions that are more human-centered and not dictated by abstract principles. Architectural beauty needs to be evaluated from its effects on human health. This study discusses …
The topic of symmetry continues to be a dynamic and fruitful one in many fields—but architecture is not one of them. Indeed, as we have seen, architecture as a profession continues to be dominated by a school of thought that is charitably described as an obsolete relic of an earlier and more elementary industrial age. A more critical view is …
The intersection of architecture and the biology of perception: a list readings & videos
A feature length documentary movie
Is there a ‘design disconnect’ between the architecture that most architects prefer and the architecture that most non-designers prefer? Francisco Contreras Chávez | CTI, Concepción, ChileDavid Milner2 | Create Streets, London, United Kingdom This article reviews existing literature on the ‘design disconnect’ that appears to exist between architects and the general public. It examines sociological research undertaken in Concepción, Chile into the aesthetic tastes of …
