Nikos A. Salingaros

Christopher Alexander’s approach to design has opened up a new freedom to apply the latest scientific advances to architecture and urbanism. At the same time, it has led to an unexpected reunion of cutting-edge design techniques with timeless traditional techniques.

Going forward based upon scientific understanding has made us realize how much sophistication was included in traditional typologies and practices. Perhaps the most important was a sustainable approach to building.

Christopher Alexander’s approach to design has opened up a new freedom to apply the latest scientific advances to architecture and urbanism. At the same time, it has led to an unexpected reunion of cutting-edge design techniques with timeless traditional techniques.

 Going forward based upon scientific understanding has made us realize how much sophistication was included in traditional typologies and practices. Perhaps the most important was a sustainable approach to building.

 Nili Portugali

In this lecture Architect Nili Portugali will present her particular interpretation of the holistic phenomenological worldview in architecture both in theory and in practice.

 A humanistic worldview (which she will argue is much beyond the given definition of sustainable architecture) stands in recent years at the forefront of the scientific discourse as a whole in disciplines like cosmology, neurobiology, psychology, particle physics, brain sciences, and recent theories of complexity as well as in convergence with the fundamentals of Buddhist philosophy.

Portugali will demonstrate how this approach was implemented in selected buildings and projects she designed and built in Israel for more than 30 years.

Nikos A. Salingaros 

The New Palladians exhibit collects recent projects of the world’s top traditional architects. One of the featured projects is by Hadi Simaan, José Cornelio da Silva, and Nikos Salingaros.

These designs reveal that Classical design is very much in demand today. It can be practiced, and very successfully indeed, in a variety of blends using traditional and contemporary materials and construction techniques. This exhibit shows that the scope for innovation in contemporary Classical design is immense, disproving the common accusation of restricted design freedom.

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