Cities of the Future

On Nature and the Grammar of Design

Book chapter (2023)

Authors

D. Cannatella Urban Data Science - Architecture and the Built Environment
Research Group
Urban Data Science (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)
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Published Date

2023

Language

English

Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Urbanism

Research Group

Urban Data Science

Abstract

In his book, 'The sense of style', the cognitive scientist Steven Pinker argues that the categories of grammar reflect the four building blocks of thought: time, space, causality, and matter. Coincidentally, these building blocks are the same ones that dictate the grammar of spatial design. In them being absolute categories, they describe well the way architects, designers, planners and landscape architects perceive, investigate and intervene in the reality around them.