In response to Alasdair:
AT>surely we should not lose sight of the importance
AT>of the architect in all of our mathematical
AT>meanderings.
What about the informal settlements that are built without professional
architects, where so much of the world's population lives?
Surely what we should not be loosing sight of is the problem definition
that we share as a research community. The most important thing about 'The
Social Logic of Space' for me is that Bill and Julienne were able to launch
a research programme with a clear and convincing agenda: what role does
space as an independent variable have on society? How can you measure it?
The design of space is only sometimes intentional and a lot of the design
that is most influential in peoples lives is emergent and not
architect-led. But wherever the design comes from, the job that analysis
(and all the mathematical meanderings) plays is to tell us what its effects
might be on people and how they will use it: isn't that what was meant by
the 'social logic' of space? Isn't the real goal to create plausible
theories of how society works spatially, so that all the people engaged in
building it can do so with a better understanding of what the repercussions
of their actions might be?
The social logic of space really is about something much bigger and more
profound than just what architects do or think.
Jake
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