Hello Everybody
I'm been very happy to see a sustained conversation happening over the
mailbase, though I'm surprised John Peponis hasn't added his own comments.
The last email I received from him suggested he was like 'Mike Tyson raging
to burst into the arena' (Where are you, John?). Tom suggested it would be
interesting to see some of the abstracts submitted to Space Syntax - Second
International Symposium posted over the mailbase so people could read and
discuss them. What I am going to do is occasionally send an abstract over
the mailbase to (hopefully) help continue the conversation. When things
slow down, I will post the next abstract and so on until people either get
bored or beg me to stop. Please note that I only have the UCL abstracts
electronically, so there will be a lot more you won't see than you will
(though of course those of you who are on the mailbase and submitting
papers to the symposium may wish to post your own abstracts for discussion
purposes). The first abstract is below.
Mark
Space Syntax - Second International Symposium
Brasilia, Brazil 29 March - 3 April 1999
Research Into Practice: From Practice, Research
Tim Stonor and David Rosenberg
Space Syntax Laboratory
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
(Torrington Place Site)
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
England
tel (44) (0)171 813 4364
fax (44) (0)171 813 4363
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www http://www.spacesyntax.com
This paper reports the genesis, development and presentation of the
recently completed World Squares For All masterplan for the Whitehall area
of central London by a Norman Foster led design team. The paper has two
aims. First, to describe the way in which Space Syntax techniques of
detailed observation and configurational analysis have played a central
role in the masterplan process - from generating design ideas to the
process of public and private consultation. Second, to describe how Space
Syntax techniques were advanced by the discovery of phenomena which
existing methods gave an approximate account of, but fell short of fully
explaining.
The paper will introduce the phenomenon of "necessity to innovate" and
suggest that the applied research activities of the Space Syntax
Laboratory, University College London make an essential contribution to the
process of researching the built environment. They do this by bringing
knowledge to bear on real-world issues, developing that knowledge through
the dynamic of the design process, and feeding the developed knowledge back
into the process of research.
Finally, the paper will speculate that the phenomenon of "necessity to
innovate" is common to the activities of Researcher and Architect alike,
and required by their participation in processes which engage the dynamic
of society. The relationship developed between the Space Syntax Laboratory
UCL and Foster and Partners over ten years of close collaboration is
evidence of this, where the World Squares project represents the latest
opportunity to advance research knowledge through the demanding rigour of
practice.
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Mark David Major
Course Director, MSc Built Environment: Advanced Architectural Studies
Associate, Space Syntax Laboratory
The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
(Torrington Place Site)
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
tel +44 (0)171 504 5914
fax +44 (0)171 813 4363
email [log in to unmask]
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