
#20 - Nikos Salingaros
Theory of Architecture
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The Trigger Signals of Humane Architecture
The great lie that something has to be either very traditional or modernest is a big lie. Alexander's school of architecture has no columns and pediments. It does not look traditional, but it looks and feels old fashioned. When you create a healing environment from materials, a building or an urban or space, it feel old fashioned. That feeling is what your body is telling you that youare connected to it biologically. Now, the modernists and the contemporary architects want to avoid any of that old fashioned feeling because they want to avoid the erological connection. They are seeking an anxiety feedback from the structures. Only a education will help. But education has totally failed becausethere there are
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