Nikos A. Salingaros
Nikos A. Salingaros is a professor of mathematics and architecture. His latest book, "Unified Architectural Theory", is published in several languages and online.
Architecture’s abysmal ignorance
Artificial Intelligence reveals what experts deny
Architectural urbanicide
Our societies have allowed special interests to tear down living architecture
Modernist architecture melts our brains
Findings from lockdown suggest environments lacking the complexity of life may pose a threat to humanity
Still making dystopia
What have modern architects learned from their most trenchant critic?
The left-wing defence of free speech
A recent book mounts a rare and powerful, if partly flawed, case for free expression from the Left
Are Labour the real racists?
Conservatives should stop trying to play the victim on identitarian grounds
The BBC should remember what it’s for
A public broadcaster should exist for truthful journalism, not fashionable pieties
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Saving London from the czar
London’s nightlife could be great — but it needs real change
William Wilberforce and England’s forgotten saints
The Clapham Saints and their efforts to reform British manners have been unjustly and unwisely forgotten
They like her when she’s angry
Kemi Badenoch is the Incredible Hulk of government ministers, roaring her way through the public realm, smashing opponents left and right
No questions about the woman question, please
Activists are even being excluded from conversations about activism
The light and the insubstantial
Poulenc and others: Chamber music (Calliope/DG)
A passage to Istria
Long nights and grey days turn our correspondent’s mind to the Croatian coast