How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AI
The architecture in the title refers to physical buildings, spaces, and walls. Dominant architectural culture prefers minimalist environments that contradict the information setting needed for the infant brain to develop. Much of world architecture after World War II is therefore unsuitable for rais...
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| description | The architecture in the title refers to physical buildings, spaces, and walls. Dominant architectural culture prefers minimalist environments that contradict the information setting needed for the infant brain to develop. Much of world architecture after World War II is therefore unsuitable for raising children. Data collected by technological tools, including those that use AI for processing signals, indicate a basic misfit between cognition and design. Results from the way AI software works in general, together with mobile robotics and neuroscience, back up this conclusion. There exists a critical research gap: the systematic investigation of how the geometry of the built environment influences cognitive development and human neurophysiology. While previous studies have explored environmental effects on health (other than from pathogens and pollutants), they largely focus on factors such as acoustics, color, and light, neglecting the fundamental role of spatial geometry. Geometrical features in the ancestral setting shaped neural circuits that determine human cognition and intelligence. However, the contemporary built environment consisting of raw concrete, plate glass, and exposed steel sharply contrasts with natural geometries. Traditional and vernacular architectures are appropriate for life, whereas new buildings and urban spaces adapt to human biology and are better for raising children only if they follow living geometry, which represents natural patterns such as fractals and nested symmetries. This study provides a novel, evidence-based framework for adaptive and empathetic architectural design. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-db77e24dc354489e9671990b03ec31442025-01-24T13:44:02ZengMDPI AGMultimodal Technologies and Interaction2414-40882024-12-0191210.3390/mti9010002How Architecture Builds Intelligence: Lessons from AINikos A. Salingaros0Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at San Antonio, One UTSA Circle, San Antonio, TX 78249, USAThe architecture in the title refers to physical buildings, spaces, and walls. Dominant architectural culture prefers minimalist environments that contradict the information setting needed for the infant brain to develop. Much of world architecture after World War II is therefore unsuitable for raising children. Data collected by technological tools, including those that use AI for processing signals, indicate a basic misfit between cognition and design. Results from the way AI software works in general, together with mobile robotics and neuroscience, back up this conclusion. There exists a critical research gap: the systematic investigation of how the geometry of the built environment influences cognitive development and human neurophysiology. While previous studies have explored environmental effects on health (other than from pathogens and pollutants), they largely focus on factors such as acoustics, color, and light, neglecting the fundamental role of spatial geometry. Geometrical features in the ancestral setting shaped neural circuits that determine human cognition and intelligence. However, the contemporary built environment consisting of raw concrete, plate glass, and exposed steel sharply contrasts with natural geometries. Traditional and vernacular architectures are appropriate for life, whereas new buildings and urban spaces adapt to human biology and are better for raising children only if they follow living geometry, which represents natural patterns such as fractals and nested symmetries. This study provides a novel, evidence-based framework for adaptive and empathetic architectural design.https://www.mdpi.com/2414-4088/9/1/2AIarchitecturedesigndevelopmentempathetic designempathy |
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