July 15 2010 Webinar: Urban and Information
Architectures: A Cross Disciplinary Approach to Complexity with Roger
Sessions and Nikos Salingaros hosted by IASA
How do you manage the complexity of large systems? Complexity
management is a common problem for both large urban architectures and
large information architectures. Architectural complexity in both
disciplines is driven by similar mathematical principles which define
the relationship between complex systems (which are difficult to manage
and understand) and simpler systems (which are easily graspable.) IT
architects can learn to design much better and simpler IT systems by
studying the basic design principles of urban architecture.
In this Webinar, Roger Sessions (IT Complexity Expert) and
Nikos Salingaros (Urban Complexity Expert) explore the common
problem of complexity as it impacts both IT and urban architectures and
discuss the critical lessons each discipline can learn from the other.
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Roger Sessions is a leading thinker in IT Architecture. He is the
CTO of ObjectWatch, a company he founded 13 years ago, and a Fellow of
the International Association of Software Architects. He has written
seven books including his most recent, Simple Architectures for
Complex Enterprises, many articles and white papers. His most recent
white paper is titled The IT Complexity Crisis; Danger and Opportunity.
This white paper was widely downloaded and extensively analyzed in
organizations throughout the world and in the press. A frequent keynote
speaker, Sessions has presented in countries around the world on the
topics of IT Complexity and Enterprise Architecture.
Nikos A. Salingaros is the author of Anti-Architecture and
Deconstruction (2004), Principles of Urban Structure {2005},
and "A Theory of Architecture" (2006), as well as numerous
scientific papers. Both an artist and scientist, he is Professor of
Mathematics at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and is also on
the architecture faculties of universities in Holland, Italy, and
Mexico. He designed the Commercial Center in Doha, Qatar in
collaboration with Hadi Simaan and Jos‚ Cornelio-da-Silva. Dr.
Salingaros' theoretical work underpins and helps to link new movements
in architecture and urbanism, such as New Urbanism, the Network City,
Biophilic Design, Self-built Housing, and Sustainable Architecture. He
is working with the Peer-to-Peer Foundation to promote self-built
housing for the developing world. Dr. Salingaros collaborated with
Christopher Alexander, helping to edit the four-volume "The Nature of
Order" during its twenty-five-year gestation, a work that had a huge
impact on the Patterns Movement in Software Architecture. In recognition
of his efforts to understand architecture using scientific thinking, he
was awarded the first grant ever for research on architecture by the
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in 1997. Dr. Salingaros is a member of the
INTBAU College of Traditional Practitioners, and is on the INTBAU
Committee of Honor. Dr. Salingaros was included as one of the "50
Visionaries" selected by the UTNE Reader in 2008.
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