Nikos A. Salingaros is the author of “Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction”, “Principles of Urban Structure”, and “A Theory of Architecture”, as well as numerous scientific papers. A Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he is on the architecture faculties of universities in Holland, Italy, and Mexico, and designed the Commercial Center in Doha, Qatar with Hadi Simaan and José Cornelio-da-Silva. Dr. Salingaros is one of the “50 Visionaries” selected by UTNE Reader in 2008.
Nili Portugali is a practicing architect working in Israel for more than 30 years, teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa.
Her work focuses on both practice and theory, and is tightly connected to the holistic-phenomenological school of thought. She is a graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture (A.A), London. She did postgraduate studies in Architecture and Buddhism at the University of California in Berkeley, worked and participated in research with Prof. Christopher Alexander at the Center for Environmental Structure in Berkeley. Her firm is involved in a variety of projects in unique areas of historic or environmental sensitivity, in urban design, architecture, landscape design and interior design – disciplines she regards as one continuous system.
Portugali’s new book, Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture, was selected by The Royal Institute of British Architects (R.I.B.A.) International Book Award among the 24 books of the year 2007.
