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1ST INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM

UCL, LONDON, APRIL 1997

PROCEEDINGS

 

VOLUME I
SPACE SYNTAX TODAY
01

The Reasoning Art: or, The Need for an Analytical Theory of Architecture (Professor Bill Hillier and Dr Julienne Hanson - University College London, England)
02
Space Syntax and the Dutch City (Dr Stephen Read - Delft University, The Netherlands)
03
Making Space: The Use of Space Syntax in Design (Tim Stonor - Space Syntax Laboratory, England)
04
COMPARATIVE CITIES
05
Urban Configurational Complexity: Definition And Measurement (Romulo Krafta - Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
06
The Spatial Logic of Organic Cities in Iran and the United Kingdom (Kayvan Karimi - University College London, England)
07
Urban Redevelopment and City Centre Growth (Min Ye and Håkan Josefsson - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
08
Towards a Typology of Urban Spatial Layout: The Case of Brasilia (Frederico de Holanda - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)
09
Building the American City (Mark David Major - University College London, England)
10
Marginal Integration as a Survival Strategy: Two Cases in Rio, Brazil (Dr Claudia Fernanda de Magalhães - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
11
Experiments With Settlement Aggregation Models (Bill Erickson and Tony Lloyd-Jones, University of Westminster, England)
COMPLEX BUILDINGS
12
The Space of Innovation: Interaction and Communication in the Work Environment (Alan Penn, Jake Desyllas and Laura Vaughan - University College London, England)
13
Socio-spatial Analysis of Four University Campuses in Santiago (Margarita Greene - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile; Alan Penn, University College London, England)
14
The Spatial Dimensions of Control in Restrictive Settings (Dr Frieda Peatross - Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, United States)
15
Enhancing Communication in Lab-based Organisations (Dr Jean Wineman - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States; Margaret Serrato - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States/Lord, Aeck, Sargent, Architects)
16
The Morphology of Exploration and Encounter in Museum Layouts (Dr Yoon Kyung Choi - Chungang University, South Korea)
17
Revisiting John Portman's Peachtree Center Complex in Atlanta (Mahbub Rashid - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
VOLUME II
DOMESTIC SPACE
18
The Sectors' Paradigm: Understanding Modern Functionalism in Domestic Space (Luiz Amorim - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
19
The Dinner Procession Goes to the Kitchen (Dr Edja B F Trigueiro - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
20
Activity Analysis in Houses of Recife, Brazil (Dr Circe Gama Monteiro - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
ARCHAEOLOGY
21
Fingerprints on the Landscape: Cultural Evolution in the North Rio Grande (Dr Jason Shapiro - Penn State University, United States)
22
Comparative Analysis of Chacoan Great Houses (Dr Laurel Cooper - Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, United States)
23
Space, Evolution and Function in the Houses of Chaco Canyon (Dr Wendy Bustard - NPS/Chaco Museum Collection, United States)
URBAN THEMES
24
The Urban 'Ghetto': The Spatial Distribution of Ethnic Minorities (Laura Vaughan - University College London, England)
25
Crime in the Urban Environment (Dr Michael A Jones & Mamoun Fanek - Texas Institute of Technology, United States)
26
Strategic Space: Patterns of Use in Public Squares of the City of London (Maria Beatriz de Arruda Campos - University College London, England)
27
Effects of Street Grid Configuration on Kerbside Concentrations of Vehicular Emissions (Alan Penn & Dr Ben Croxford - University College London, England)
28
Spatial Properties of Urban Barriers: Analytical Tool for a Virtual Community (Professor Björn Klarqvist - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
29
A High Speed Train is Coming to Town (Wenche Ramfloy - Heriot-Watt University, Scotland)
METHODOLOGY
30
Intelligent Architecture: New Tools for the Three Dimensional Analysis of Space and Built Form (Alan Penn, Ruth Conroy, Nick Dalton, Laura Dekker, Chiron Mottram and Alasdair Turner - University College London, England)
31
Integrated Multi-level Circulation Systems (IMCS) in Dense Urban Areas (Dongkuk Chang - University College London, England)
32
Geometry and Space in the Architecture of Le Corbusier and Mario Botta (Sophia Psarra - University College London, England)
33
On the Characterisation of Axial Maps (Teresa V Heitor, Jorge Orestes Cerdeira and Raul Cordovil - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)
34
Geometries of Architectural Description: Shape and Spatial Configuration (Dr John Peponis - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
35
Therefore the Grid: The Need for a Theory of Order (Professor Bill Hillier - University College London, England)
VOLUME III
xiii
Welcome to UCL (Professor Patrick O'Sullivan - University College London, England)
xiv
Welcome to the Symposium and Introduction (Richard Burdett - London School of Economics, England)
xvii
Opening Address (Sir Norman Foster - Foster and Partners)
xxiii
Closing Address (Professor Philip Steadman - The Open University, England)
     
09
Are American Cities Different: if so, how do they differ? (Mark David Major - University College London, England)
35
The Hidden Geometry of Deformed Grids (Professor Bill Hillier - University College London, England)
36
Space Syntax and the Dutch City - The Supergrid (Dr Stephen Read - Delft University, The Netherlands)
37
39
Comparative Analysis of Chacoan Great Houses (Dr Laurel Cooper - Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society, United States)
40
On the Description of Shape and Spatial Configuration Inside Buildings (Dr John Peponis, Dr Jean Wineman, Mahbub Rashid, S Kim and Sonit Bafna - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
41
On the Generation of Linear Representation of Spatial Configuration (Dr John Peponis, Dr Jean Wineman, Mahbub Rashid, S Kim and Sonit Bafna - Georgia Institute of Technology, United States)
42
The Question Does Compute (Mark David Major, Alan Penn and Professor Bill Hillier - University College London, England)