Nikos A. Salingaros on Pattern Language and Form Language

A lecture prepared for the Built Environment Workshop, Academy for Democracy, Laajverd Visiting School, Neelum Valley, Kashmir. July 25-August 5, 2015.

[@mukeirabluetemple6950]

Architecture has been industrially commodified to such an extent, it has become catastrophic for any human habitat. A pandemic of ugliness is still on the rise. Beautiful to hear this man speak, total resonance, total awakening

[@mukeirabluetemple6950]

Incredible, I have just graduated, and I only now have the feeling I'm starting to learn something. I've been taught about French philosophers and Modernist ideas, none of which has successful solutions for creating healthy cities. Such a waste of time, but at least I know what to look at now.

[@anonymousperson4943]

I was searching for an architect who would be speaking these points. Non-Conformity to government, humanistic values and media is the key to a better future. I thought i was alone in this ! thank you !!

[@NiokSam]

You might need to study the works of Christopher Alexander

[@jolyne8304]

0:17 Salingaros's thoughts about The Age of Industrialization and globalization 15:23 Can examples be given for different disciplines such as Biology, Architecture, etc.? 24:10 How does a pattern language of an urban setting differ from that of rural areas, where urban settings are more like towns and the rural settlements are set apart by fields? 31:19 If we need to understand the form language and pattern language in Kashmir, what would be the established pattern language?