Nature of Order Webinar: AI large-language models confirm Alexander's insights, Prof. Nikos Salingaros

In our next webinar on April 17, 2025 at 15:00 UTC, we host Prof. Nikos Salingaros:

Recent research using AI large-language models confirms the original insights of Christopher Alexander, such as his 15 fundamental properties. By going around the dominant architectural narrative to ask about specifically adaptive environments, the results coincide with what we expect from The Nature of Order. Visual prompts such as "design an environment that boosts creativity" and "design an environment that increases intelligence" produce images that satisfy the 15 properties. This fact is in turn verified by the same software, which checks for how many of the 15 properties are present in what it generated, and to what degree. AI opens up a paradigm-changing opportunity to verify Alexander's results by drawing upon massive amounts of collective scientific data. 

Dr. Nikos A. Salingaros, MA, PhD, is Professor of Mathematics and Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He won the 2019 Stockholm Cultural Award for Architecture and shared the 2018 Clem Labine Traditional Building Award with Michael Mehaffy. He is a member of the US President’s Council on Improving Federal Civic Architecture. An internationally recognized Architectural Theorist and Urbanist, his publications include seven books on architecture and design, two of them co-authored with Michael Mehaffy. Salingaros collaborated with the visionary architect and software pioneer Christopher Alexander over more than twenty years in editing Alexander’s monumental four-volume book The Nature of Order. Salingaros holds a doctorate in Mathematical Physics from Stony Brook University, New York.

Design for an environment that boosts creativity in mathematical thought