On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 19:11:19 -0000, Alain Chiaradia
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>I suppose that the best people to start answering these historic
>questions would be Bill and Julienne. Beside them a lot more people
>were involved in space syntax beginnings and it will be good to hear it
>from them too.
Dear Alain,
Good point. We have already heard from them. This list is backlogged by
jiscmail -have a look at:
http://tinyurl.com/67snb
Kind regards,
Rui
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>It would be understandable that both Bill and Julienne would be keeping
>themselves busy with the "what next" of space syntax, much more
>exciting, than in recovering the past, yet having said that I cannot
>speak for them.
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>It would certainly be quite fascinating, is anybody up for it?
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>Several parallel contextual strands would be part of it.
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>The formalism coding frenzy of that early time is surely one of them too
>(very visible in the social logic of space); one of the originality of
>space syntax was to confront it to social issues.
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>Alain Chiaradia GradDipl (AA) Arch dplg
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>Director
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>From: David Seamon [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: 03 March 2005 18:46
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>Subject: space syntax beginnings
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>Alain,
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>It was most interesting that you said that Gassin was Bill's "one time
>holiday destination."
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>This bit of information leads me to a question/request I have had for
>quite some time: Have Bill or Julienne or someone else written a
>"history" of how space syntax theory came into being? Was it actually a
>serendipitous vacation visit to Gassin that led to Bill's wondering if
>there might be some deeper spatial structure expressed through
>configuration.
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>I hope at some point Bill or Jullienne or someone else sets down the
>story because it is one of those remarkable examples of a situation
>where thinking
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>and ideas seem to be in synchrony with experience and life as it
>actually happens.
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>DS
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>Dr. David Seamon
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>Architecture Department, Kansas State University
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>211 Seaton Hall
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>Manhattan, KS 66506-2901
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