School of Architecture, Copenhagen, institute 3 ‘Planning’

Space as a Machine

- Introduction to Space Syntax Analyses

Seminar and workshop 3.312

Associate Prof.. Bo Grönlund

Program (download poster with detailed program in Acrobat Reader format, i.e. as .pdf):

http://homepage.mac.com/bogronlund/3_312_2003fall.pdf

Literature:

Architecture & Behaviour, Vol. 3 n. 3. 1987. Special issue on space syntax by Hillier, Hanson, Peponis and others: “A second paradigm”, “Syntactic Analyses of Settlements”, “Creating life - Or Does Architecture Determine Anything?”, “The Architecture of Community - Some New Proposals on the Social Consequences of Architectural and Planning Decisions”.

Bill Hillier & Julienne Hanson: The Social Logic of Space, Cambridge University Press, 1984

Bill Hillier et al: Natural movement - or configuration and attraction in urban pedestrian movement, Environment and Planning B, Planning and Design, 1993, volume 20, p 29-66

Bill Hillier: Against enclosure, in Necdet Teymur et al (ed) ‘Rehumanising housing’, Butterworths, London, 1988.

Bill Hillier: Space is the machine - a configurational theory of architecture, Cambridge University Press 1996

Björn Klarqvist: Manual för rumlig analys av städer och byggnader. SACTH 1991:1, Stadsbuggnad : Arkitektur - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Göteborg, 1991(Swedish)

Ekistics no. 334/335, January-April 1989. Special issue on space syntax analyses.

Julienne Hanson: Decoding Homes and houses, Cambridge University Press, 1998

Lars Marcus: Architectural knowledge and urban form - the functional performance of architectural urbanity, Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan, Stockholm 2000.

Mattias Kärrholm, Är rummet en maskin?, Sektionen för Arkitektur, LTH, Lund 1999 (Swedish)

Space Syntax - first international symposium, poceedings volume I-III, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, London, 1997.

Tomas A Markus, Björn Klarqvist, Bill Hillier m.fl.: Temanummer om rumlig analys, Nordisk Arkitekturforskning vol. 6, Nr. 2, 1993. (Partly English, partly Swedish)

Tomas A. Markus: Buildings & Power - freedom & control in the origin of modern building types, Routledge, London, 1993

For literature and info on the internet, see below (clickable links):

Manuals to Space Syntax Laboratory’s computer programs program

An advanced tutorial in Axman

Pesh

A brief lesson in observation

A brief lesson in Statview 512

Further information

Bo Grönlund,

Institute 3, Sdr. kontorbygning, Philip de Langes Alle 11, 2.floor, phone 32686639 or mobile 40525181 or home 49225181.

Email: bo.gronlund@karch.dk Homepage: http:bo.gronlund.homepage.dk

On Space Syntax on the internet:

The central homepages of space syntax:

http://www.spacesyntax.com/

http://www.spacesyntaxlaboratory.org/

http://www.spacesyntax.net/

An animated presentation of axial space syntax as a little "movie":

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/newvenue/localaccess.htm

A good overview on the net of Space syntax in relation to cities:

http://www.spacesyntax.com/publications/commonlang.html

Other central things on the net are:

http://www.spacesyntax.com/publications/spacemachine.html

http://www.arch.chalmers.se/tema/stadsbyggnad/glossary.pdf

The 3rd Space Syntax Symposium 2001:

http://undertow.arch.gatech.edu/homepages/3sss/Proceedings_frame.htm

The 4th Space Syntax Symposium 2003 (click on 'proceedings'):

http://www.spacesyntax.net/SSS4.htm

Article in ArcitectureWeek:

http://www.architectureweek.com/2001/1031/tools_2-1.html

 On GIS (Geographical Information Systems):

http://www.casa.ucl.ac.uk/venue/space_syntax.html

On Visibility Graph Analyses:

http://www.vr.ucl.ac.uk/research/vga/#method

Lars Marcus on architectural theory, Stockholm:

http://www.umu.se/cerum/publikationer/info/publ_wp26_00.html