About the author: Nikos Salingaros
Nikos A. Salingaros is professor of mathematics at the University of Texas in San Antonio, and is associated with the faculties of Architecture at Delft University of Technology and at the University of Rome III. In addition he is a consultant for various American New Urbanist projects and for government planners in other countries (Mexico, Greece and Spain).
Having collaborated with Christopher Alexander since 1983, Salingaros is combining Alexander’s ideas with those of the New Urbanists into the developing “network city.” Dr. Salingaros is dedicated to teaching and training a new generation of architects and urbanists, bridging the gap between academics and practitioners. His articles on architecture and urbanism have been translated into French, German, Italian, Spanish, and many other languages.
Nikos Salingaros is a physicist and mathematician, as well as an urbanist. He applies his theoretical insights gained from physical systems and mathematical structures to structural form and principles in urbanism. In 1997, he was awarded the first-ever research grant in Architecture by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for the study into scientific laws of architecture. Nikos Salingaros is a member of several architecture/urbanist committees and editorial boards, and keynote speaker at internationally renowned conferences. He was recently elected member of the INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners. Many see his work as providing a much-needed scientific basis for the innovative ideas in the new humanistic architecture, as well as a link to to the timeless values of traditional architecture.
Principles of Urban Structure is Salingaros’ third book on urbanism and architecture. His previous titles are A Theory of Architecture and Anti-architecture and Deconstruction.