Form follows flow | Nigel Reading | TEDxWanChai

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences.
Drawing from his years of experience in architecture and design, Nigel shares his passion for time, beauty and symmetry. He explains how elegance in nature transforms into beauty and sustainability in culture, and asks how beauty persists in time.
Nigel Reading is an architect, complexity geometer, sustainability advocate and Design Director of ASYNSIS Architecture + Design, working between Hong Kong, Shanghai and London.
Raised in Hong Kong and Australia and educated in London, Nigel is the designer of the iconic observation wheel proposal Hong Kong Spin, and the co-discoverer of the Asynsis principle-Constructal law, a new geometric, thermodynamics-led sustainable design paradigm of nature and culture. His Asynsis principle “design as (arts bridge to) science” merges the contemporary with the contextual, synergising bespoke, culturally-resonant, beautiful, evocative, sustainability-informed designs that add maximum value to stakeholders’ projects and to client brands.
The principle is also an opportunity to develop new transcultural, global-savvy fusion design approaches in Asia, melding Western concepts of aesthetic and geometric beauty in the arts and sciences with Chinese philosophical concepts of auspicious harmony and good fortune. His work can be described as learning from how nature designs for beauty by following the most elegant energy flow patterns. This can also be understood as the optimal release of "Qi” energy flow behaviours by designing with the most beautiful “Li” signatures. He does this by describing, not only how the Golden Ratio forms space, but also-uniquely in his field-how it flows in time.
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Great presentation of the constructual law complexity science...our past and our future .