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Towards a Biological Understanding of Architecture and Urbanism: Lessons from Steven Pinker

Towards a Biological Understanding of Architecture and Urbanism: Lessons from Steven Pinker by Nikos Salingaros Architecture is indeed linked to biology. This observation is intuitively true from a structural perspective, since human beings perceive a kinship between the different processes — natural and artificial — that generate form. Nevertheless, the broadness of the claim might appear surprising, considering that it comes from architects holding radically different ideas […] read more