Space is the machine: a configurational theory of architecture

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Since The social logic of space was published in 1984, Bill Hillier and his colleagues at University College London have been conducting research on how space features in the form and functioning of buildings and cities. A key outcome is the concept of ‘spatial configuration’ — meaning relations which take account of other relations in a complex. New techniques have been developed and applied to a wide range of architectural and urban problems. The aim of this book is to assemble some of this work and show how it leads the way to a new type of theory of architecture: an ‘analytic’ theory in which understanding and design advance together. The success of configurational ideas in bringing to light the spatial logic of buildings and cities suggests that it might be possible to extend these ideas to other areas of the human sciences where problems of configuration and pattern are critical.

该书作为建筑空间句法理论的重要著作在国内已经有中文译本。经过几十年的发展，空间句法作为一种理论已经有了众多实践的范例，并为评价一座建筑物乃至一个区域的规划提供了依据。作为一种区别于以往建筑理论的特征，其与数学及计算机结合之紧密也令人侧目。

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http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/3881/