The pandemic has revealed in a dramatic manner the insufficiency of  present-day architectural academia. Official architectural culture has been totally unable to provide comfortable living spaces and environments for billions of people who have had to be confined. The theoretical basis of industrial modernism is bankrupt: it was always meant to provide extractive profits for a small group, instead of living environments for all the users. — Nikos Salingaros.

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  • Bembel, Irina. "Beauty as an ethical concept." New Design Ideas 4, no. 2 (2020): 61-64.

  • Borda-de-Água, Luís. "How scientific attitudes can help get architecture out of its present mess: three simple rules to follow." New Design Ideas 4, no. 2 (2020): 65-67.

This document, originally published in New Design Ideas, Volume 4, No. 1 (2020) is officially shared with Architexturez for the benefit of students in South Asia by the publisher.