This is the seventh lecture in the series: “Algorithmic Sustainable Design”, by Nikos A. Salingaros, Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at The University of Texas at San Antonio. All the lectures from a course given in 2008 are available on the Internet. 

ASD 07: Step by step adaptive design (Lecture)

Texts discussed:

  • Christopher Alexander (2001) The Nature of Order, Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life, Center for Environmental Structure, Berkeley, California.
  • Christopher Alexander (2009) “Harmony-Seeking Computations”, Keynote Speech at the International Workshop “The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation”, University of York, UK, April 2005:
  • Christopher Alexander, S. Ishikawa, M. Silverstein, M. Jacobson, I. Fiksdahl-King & S. Angel (1977) A Pattern Language. 
  • Santiago Calatrava (2002) Conversations with Students — The MIT Lectures.
  • Jacques Derrida & Peter Eisenman (1997) Chora L Works. 
  • Andrés Duany, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk & Sandy Sorlien (2000) Rural-Urban Transect. https://transect.org/rural_img.html
  • Nili Portugali (2006) The Act of Creation and the Spirit of a Place: A Holistic-Phenomenological Approach to Architecture. 
  • Nikos Salingaros (2005; 2014) Principles of Urban Structure. https://applied.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/POUS-online.html
  • Nikos Salingaros (2006; 2014) A Theory of Architecture. https://applied.math.utsa.edu/~yxk833/ATOA-online.html
An accompanying book contains the revised lecture notes: Algorithmic Sustainable Design — Twelve Lectures on Architecture, Sustasis Press, Portland, Oregon (2010, 2014). (US Edition), (European Edition), and (Asian Edition)