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The Social Logic of Space

The Social Logic of Space

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Social Logic of Space
Review: This book is a seminal work in the social science study of the use of space and architecture. Hillier and Hanson are geographers but this book would appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, urban planners, and mathematicians. According to Hillier and Hanson human culture is inherently spatial in its expression though it often has not been considered as such. The authors take a topological approach and provide for a "space syntax" analysis that treats human architecture as a "meta-linguistic" system. That is, human architecture is a system of signs, a simple form of language. By analyzing architecture and human use of space in this way the plan of a building becomes more important to analyze than the decorative facade, which typically is the focus of architectural historians. In sum, this book and its approach has given rise to a number of structural and post-structural methods for architectural analysis.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: The Social Logic of Space
Review: This book is a seminal work in the social science study of the use of space and architecture. Hillier and Hanson are geographers but this book would appeal to anthropologists, sociologists, urban planners, and mathematicians. According to Hillier and Hanson human culture is inherently spatial in its expression though it often has not been considered as such. The authors take a topological approach and provide for a "space syntax" analysis that treats human architecture as a "meta-linguistic" system. That is, human architecture is a system of signs, a simple form of language. By analyzing architecture and human use of space in this way the plan of a building becomes more important to analyze than the decorative facade, which typically is the focus of architectural historians. In sum, this book and its approach has given rise to a number of structural and post-structural methods for architectural analysis.


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