
#20 - Nikos Salingaros
Theory of Architecture
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Architecture and Entropy
Entropys disorder. And for architecture, wi will say its visual disorder. So you take a a box of toothpicks and throw them on the floor,. You have a total antropy because they're randomly alligned. If you carefully align them to make some sort of pattern, then you're reducing the anthropy. That's what architecture is. Some som tets deliberately break up the form. This is the constructivism. The human mind reacts very negatively. It is stressed by by seeing this ant entropy a embodied into form. All the tools of design that i have alluded to to create a human, humanly adapteve design, are really methods of reducing the Anthropy -
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