by Nikos A. Salingaros Department of Mathematics, University of Texas at San Antonio, United States of America *Originally published in the Journal of Biourbanism, 8(1/2019), 13–34 ABSTRACT: By estimating certain features of the built environment, we can predict positive healing effects that spaces and structures may have on users. This can be estimated before something is built. […] read more
Conclusion of the 2019 Biourbanism Summer School in Artena The 4th International Society of Biourbanism (ISB) Summer School, “Designing a Home of Language” (Artena, Italy, July 13–20, 2019), started by acknowledging the problematic situation of communication among humans and humans and their natural and cultural environment. This includes the effects of human relation impoverishment, economic […] read more
by Sergio Los Originally published June 15, 2019 on Biourbanistica Many Italians are desperate. They leave Italy, thinking that it sucks. They do not want to have children in this country. Although they are born here, they come to hate it. This contributes to a difficult demographic crisis, abandoning it to a rather worrying extent (quantity […] read more
The International Society of Biourbanism is pleased to offer the following titles in collaboration with Artena Anarchist Press: Current Antonio Lima-de-Faria, A. Science and art are based on the same principles and values. Artena: Artena Anarchist Press, 2020. Marwa Al-Sabouni. La battaglia per la casa: memorie di un’architetta siriana [The Battle for Home: Memoir of […] read more
Language The power to transmit is skyrocketing while our human capability to communicate is dying. This global phenomenon is accelerating to the point of deteriorating communities and adversely affecting social relations, politics, and justice, along with the symbolic systems of cities, rurality, and landscape. Design We need design to build real communication among human beings, […] read more
The International Society of Biourbanism will once again be joining forces in Artena, Italy with Prof. Arch. Marco Casagrande, Founder of Ruin Academy and Casagrande Lab, at the 2019 Summer School. read more
“What would happen if all the architectures of the past were destroyed, as it happened in Homs, first with the French colonial urban plans, then with modernistic real estate development, and finally with war? The courageous answer of Marwa Al-Sabouni is: there will be people able to rebuild it because the human, ethical, and social […] read more
by Sergio Los Lecture from the first international conference of the National Institute of Bioarchitecture (Istituto Nazionale di Bioarchitettura – INBAR) and the University of Parma, “Architecture as Common Good: Recovering Urban Quality and Well-being” in Parma, Italy, May 3–4, 2018. Originally published in the Journal of Biourbanism Volume VII, 2/2018 1. SYMBOLIC COMMUNICATION IS […] read more
by Marwa Al-Sabouni This important paper was first published as part of the Journal of Biourbanism Volume V, 1&2/2016 devoted to the epistemology of design (pp. 81–97). We share it separately from that 310-page volume, wishing for a discussion on the specific problems presented by the Author. ABSTRACT: We live in a world that suffers from […] read more
by Stefano Serafini An important principle of biourbanism is that nature and culture do not belong to separated aims but interact on a common ground, whose center is the human body. After the great influence of Robin George Collingwood and of his idealism (Collingwood, 1958), 20th century critics tended to regard art and architecture as […] read more