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    Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction by Nikos A. Salingaros

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    • Pub. Date: May 2007
    • 210pp

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      • Pub. Date: May 2007
      • Publisher: ISI Books
      • Format: Paperback, 210pp

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      "The Emperor Has No Clothes" is an old adage, but, in the sad case of Deconstructivism, it is absolutely appropriate, as Deconstructivism is really nothing more than Modernism in a new guise. Modernists, notably the Bauhäusler, aimed for the clean slate, jettisoning everything that went before. Yet, at times, they claimed links with antecedents to give a spurious historical ancestry to their aims and creations. These questionable links and precedents are now being claimed for the works of Deconstructivists by sympathetic architects and their supporters. The second edition of this book is the beginning of a long-overdue counterattack. 

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      February 25, 2008: The great architects Vitruvius and Palladio devoted their lives to bringing architecture to life, by working from a powerful mastery of science, mathematics, and Universal laws. In a continuance of this heritage, Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros has used his contemporary genius in mathematical physics to architecture to create a collective body of work that sets forth scientific evidence showing the series of illogical and misleading failures of the Modern and Deconstruction movements. Dr. Salingaros' 'Anti-Architecture and Deconstruction' exposes the low degree of organized complexity of such projects, and elegantly outlines their destructive and dangerous nature. The practitioners and propagandists of those movements, who force-fed ugly, monstrous and evil architecture, and the pseudo-intellectual theory that accompanied it, upon the public, are themselves proved to be lacking scientific knowledge, and lack an understanding of the human soul. Dr. Salingaros shows once again, with an outstanding level of intellectual clarity and vigor, that history proves that relying upon scientific analyses yields incredible results.

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      April 27, 2006: A brilliant, head-clearing, scrupulous, and substantial takedown not just of hideous architecture but of the lousy philosophical (and 'scientific,' ha ha) thinking that justifies it. Salingaros is a major architecture-and-urbanism thinker who is 'way too little known, especially in the States. Why don't we pay more attention to our surroundings and their impact on the quality of our lives? Perhaps because too much that's written about the subject seems to make no sense. Salingaros combines a sophisticated mind with a down-to-earth respect for common pleasures. Fans of Jane Jacobs and Christopher Alexander have got themselves a new thinker (and battler) to root for.


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