Space Syntax - Second International Symposium
Programme Information
Monday, 29 March 1999
8:00 - 12:00 Symposium Registration
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
9:00 - 12:00 Space Syntax Workshop
9.00 - 11.00 The Configurational Workhorse: Axman
Mark David Major and Georgia Spiliopoulou
11.00 - 11.15 Coffee Break
11.15 - 12.45 Complex Representations: SpaceBox and PESH
Mark David Major and Georgia Spiliopoulou
12.45 - 13.00 Question Session
Mark David Major and Georgia Spiliopoulou
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
1400 - 16.00 Next Generation Software:
Spatialist
Dr John Peponis and Mahbub Rashid
16.00 - 16.15 Coffee Break
16.15 - 17.45 Next Generation Software: Isovist Integration Analysis
Alan Penn and Alasdair Turner
17.45 - 18.00 Question Session
John Peponis, Mahbub Rashid, Alan Penn and Alasdair Turner
9.00 - 18.00 Optional Tours
9:00 Federal District "Vernacular" Settlements
Planaltina, Dawn Valley and New Paranoa
9:00 Sarah Kubitschek Hospital
(Designed by Joco Filgueiras Lima, for those interested in complex buildings)
11:00 Some Typical Pilot Plan Superblocks
15:00 Cathedral, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Parliament, Square of the
Three Powers
Tuesday, 30 March 1999
8:00 - 10:00 Symposium Registration
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
Opening Session
10:00 - 10:10 Welcome to the University of Brasilia
Rector, Dr. Lauro Morhy
10:10 - 10:20 Welcome to the School of Architecture
Director, Geraldo Nogueira Batista
10:20 - 10.30 Welcome to the Space Syntax - Second International Symposium
and Introduction of the Opening Speaker
Symposium Organiser, Dr. Frederico de Holanda
10.30 - 11.30 Autobiography of Another Idea: Configurational Studies in
Architecture
Professor Lionel March, University of California - Los Angeles, United
States
11.30 - 12.30 Urban Transformations: A History of Design Ideas
Dr Julienne Hanson, University College London, England
12.30 - 14.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session Emerging Themes
14.00 - 15.00 Centrality as a Process: Accounting for Attraction Inequalities
in Deformed Grids
Professor Bill Hillier, University College London, England
15.00 - 16.00 Research Into Practice: From Practice, Research
Tim Stonor, Space Syntax Laboratory, University College London
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
16.30 - 17.30 The Logic of Space and the Formal Reasons of Design
Dr John Peponis, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
17.30 - 18.30 Class Footprints in the Landscape
Dr Frederico de Holanda, University of Brasilia, Brasil
Evening Events Symposium Opening
18:30 Opening of Space Syntax Exhibition and drinks
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
20:00 Music Recital for Conference Participants
Wednesday, 31 March 1999
8:00 - 9.00 Symposium Registration
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
Plenary Session 9.00 - 11.00 New Methodologies
Reformulating Space Syntax
Professor Mike Batty, CASA, UCL, England
Making Isovists Syntactic: Isovist Integration Analysis
Alastair Turner, University College London, England
A Comparison Study on Space Syntax as a Computer Model of Space
Bin Jiang, University College London, England
Virtual Beings: Emergence of Population Level Movement Behaviours from
Individual Rulesets
Chirron Mottram, University College London, England
10.45- 11.00 Questions
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Morning Session
11.30 - 12.00 Spatial and Communication Patterns in Research and Development
Facilities
Margaret Serrato, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
12.00 - 12.30 Space Syntax and the Management of Encounter in CMC Dr Avon
Huxor, Middlesex University, England
12.30 - 13.00 Organisations as Multi-Layered Networks: face to face, e-mail
and telephone interaction in the workplace
Georgia Spiliopoulou, University College London, England
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session I
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14.00 - 14.30 Spatial Pattern of Shop-Houses: A Case Study of Traditional
and Contemporary Shop- Houses in
Thailand
Monsicha Bejrananada, Texas Tech University, United States
14.30 - 15.00 The Interface Between Two Worlds
Eman Farah, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
15.00 - 15.30 Social Housing Phenotypes: Looking for Genotypes
Antonio Reis, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
15.30 - 16.00 Cloak and Dagger Theory: Manifestations of the Mundane in
Eight Houses of Peter Eisenman
Mark David Major, University College London
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
Afternoon Session II
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14.00 - 14.30 Qualitative Descriptions of Urban Clusters
Guido Stegen, Belgium
14.30 - 15.00 Ethnic Groups, Space and Identity
Nicos Peristiania, Cyprus
15.00 - 15.30 All That Meets the Eye
Mariz Beatriz Arruda de Campos, UCL, England
15.30 - 16.00 The Role of the Monument
Polly Fong, University College London, England
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
16.30 - 17.00 The Morphology of Early Modernist Residential Plans: Geometry
and Genotypical Trends in Mies van der Rohe's Designs
Sonit Bafna, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
17.00 - 17.30 From I to : Notes on the 'Architecture' of Architecture
Mahbub Rashid, Georgia Tech, USA
Thursday, 1 April 1999
8:00 - 9.00 Symposium Registration
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
Morning Session Plenary Session
9.00 - 9.30 Order and Structure, Design and Use in Housing Estates
Dr Decio Rigatti, University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
9.30 - 11.00 Self-Generated Neighbourhood Consolidation in Santiago: A
Prototype Case Study or the
Social and Spatial Understanding of Large Cities
Margarita Greene, Bill Hillier and Jake Desyllas
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Morning Session
11.30 - 12.00 Housing Layouts and Crime Vulnerability
Simon Shu, University College London
11.30 - 12.00 Why Pay to be There? Office Rent and the Location Variable
Jake Desyllas, University College London, England
12.30 - 13.00 In With the Right Crowd: Crowd Movement and Space Use in
Trafalgar Square during the New Year's Eve Celebrations
Mark David Major, University College London, England
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session I
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14.00 - 14.30 Normalising Post-war Suburbs
Ray Pradinuk, Canada
14.30 - 15.00 Morphologic Evolution in the Settlement Vila Dos
Sargentos - Port Alegre: A Case Study Nara Santos, University of Rio Grande
do Sul, Brazil
15.00 - 15.30 A Syntactic Approach to the Analysis of Spatial Patterns
in Spontaneous Retail Development in Dhaka
Nasreen Hossain, University College London, England
15.30 - 16.00 Remote Uncontrol
Ann Brandberg, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
Afternnon Session II
PARALLEL SESSIONS
14.00 - 14.30 Spatial and Political Aspects of Location in the Grid: The
Case of Belem in Brazil
Jose Lima, Oxford Brookes University, England
14.30 - 15.00 Strolling Behaviour Around the Neighbourhood for Leisure,
and Spatial Configuration
Tedjo Baskoro, Osaka University, Japan
15.00 - 15.30 Image and Shape: Two Distinct Approaches
Cristine Angelo, University of Santa Catarina, Brasil
15.30 - 16.00 Urban Events of Helsinki
Panu Lehtovouri, Tampere University, Finland
16.00 - 16.30 Coffee Break
Plenary Session
16.30 - 17.00 Spatial Themes Among the Traditional Houses of Turkey
Dr Deniz Orhun, Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey
17.00 - 17.30 The Syntactic Analysis of Turkish Houses Between 16th and
19th Centuries
Alper Uniu, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
17.30 - 18.00 Mud, Messages, and Museum Space: A Space Syntax Analysis
of the Case Grande, Arizona
Dr Jason Shapiro, USA
Friday, 2 April 1999
8:00 - 9.00 Symposium Registration
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, Gallery, Instituto Central de Cijncias
Plenary Session
9.00 - 10.00 The Logic of Meaning in the Architecture of Alvaro Siza
Dr. Mario Kruger, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal
10.00 - 10.30 Can Space Syntax Predict Environmental Cognition?
Saif-ul-Haq, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
10.30 - 11.00 Domestic Asylum: A Study of 11 Local Authority Hostels for
Mentally Handicapped People
Justin de Syllas, Avanti Architects, England
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee Break
Morning Session I
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11.30 - 12.00 Physical Planning for Economic Growth - A Study of Urban
Areas
Jesper Steen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
12.00 - 12.30 Generators of Urban History
Bjorn Klarqvist, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
12.30 - 13.00 The Use of Streets: Configuration, Culture and Space-Use
in the Coastal Settlements of Eastern Java
Endang Danjosanjoto, University of Manchester, England
13.00 - 13.30 Can Space Syntax Predict Traffic Flows, Speeds and Mix?
Dr Ben Croxford, University College London, England
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
Morning Session II
PARALLEL SESSIONS
11.30 - 12.00 An Application of Space Syntax in the Definition of Bus
Corridors (113)
Yvonne Maha, University of Brasilia, Brazil
12.00 - 12.30 Women's Fear and Space Configurations
Carina Listerborn, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
12.30 - 13.00 The Urban Village and the City of Tomorrow Revisited
Mark David Major
13.00 - 13.30 Housing Estates of Athens: The Structure of Public Space
in Sparsely Built Areas Vaso Trova,
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch Break
Afternoon Session
14.30 - 15.00 The Grain of Space in Time: The Spatial/Functional Inheritance
of Amsterdam's Centre
Dr Stephen Read, Delft University, The Netherlands
15.00 - 15.30 Breaking of the Mediaeval Space: The Emergence of A New
City of Enlightenment
Teresa Heitor, Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal
15.30 - 16.00 Coffee Break
Late Afternoon Session Closing Session
16.00 - 16.45 Space As a Paradigm
Professor Bill Hillier, University College London, England
16.45 - 17.30 Experiments with an Archetypal Building
Professor Philip Steadman, University College London, England
17.30 - 18.00 Space Syntax As A Disclipine
Dr John Peponis, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
18.00 - 18.20 Closing Address
Dr Frederico de Holanda, University of Brasilia, Brasil
18.20 - 18.30 Close of the Symposium and Announcement of Space Syntax
- Third International Symposium
Mark David Major, Secretariat, International Space Syntax Committee
_______________________________
_______________________________