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NEW PAPER: Cities, Mind and Societies: Geometrical Explorations Towards a Design Level Analytic Theory | NEW PAPER: Cities, Mind and Societies: Geometrical Explorations Towards a Design Level Analytic Theory | ||
| − | Part 1 Part 2 | + | Part 1: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES1.pdf |
| + | Part 2: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES2.pdf | ||
| + | Part 3: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES3.pdf | ||
Bill writes: "[The paper] talks about the object of research being to change the designer's understanding of what it is they are designing - hence what I call an analytic theory. I'm very concerned with the idea that good research and good theory can free the designer's mind and lead him or her to adventure into novel forms and spaces more securely. The last couple of pages of the text ... make links to the philosophy of science in a way that some might find either interesting or provocative." | Bill writes: "[The paper] talks about the object of research being to change the designer's understanding of what it is they are designing - hence what I call an analytic theory. I'm very concerned with the idea that good research and good theory can free the designer's mind and lead him or her to adventure into novel forms and spaces more securely. The last couple of pages of the text ... make links to the philosophy of science in a way that some might find either interesting or provocative." | ||
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NEW PAPER: A Note on the Intuiting of Form | NEW PAPER: A Note on the Intuiting of Form | ||
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Bill writes: "...a short one I wrote about design a few years ago (with obvious reference to Chris Alexander) as a kind of reflection on 'design methods' after decades of developing space syntax. It is a kind of defence of informed intuition in architecture - as indeed is my book Space is the Machine. It raises question about patterns: how changing a part can change the whole, how patterns are different from different points of view and how these two things raise special kinds of problems in combining patterns - hence my abiding - and some might say unfashionable - interest in overall structure, albeit of the emergent kind." | Bill writes: "...a short one I wrote about design a few years ago (with obvious reference to Chris Alexander) as a kind of reflection on 'design methods' after decades of developing space syntax. It is a kind of defence of informed intuition in architecture - as indeed is my book Space is the Machine. It raises question about patterns: how changing a part can change the whole, how patterns are different from different points of view and how these two things raise special kinds of problems in combining patterns - hence my abiding - and some might say unfashionable - interest in overall structure, albeit of the emergent kind." | ||
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NEW PAPER: The Golden Age for Cities? How We Design Cities is How We Understand Them | NEW PAPER: The Golden Age for Cities? How We Design Cities is How We Understand Them | ||
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Professor Bill Hillier sets out research priorities for the 21st Century | Professor Bill Hillier sets out research priorities for the 21st Century | ||
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How Geometric Intuitions Shape Urban Space and Make It Work | How Geometric Intuitions Shape Urban Space and Make It Work | ||
Keynote Address, Conference on Spatial Cognition | Keynote Address, Conference on Spatial Cognition | ||
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Abstract. What can we learn of the human mind by examining its products? Here it is argued that a great deal can be learned, and that the study of human minds through its creations in the real world could be a promising field of study within the cognitive sciences. The city is a case in point. Since the beginning of cities human ideas about them have been dominated by geometric ideas, and the real history of cities has always oscillated between the geometric and the ‘organic’. Set in the context of the suggestion from cognitive neuroscience that we impose more geometric order on the world that it actually possesses, an intriguing question arises: what is the role of geometric intuition in how we understand cities and how we create them? Here we argue that all cities, the organic as well as the geometric, are pervasively ordered by geometric intuition, so that neither the forms of the cities nor their functioning can be understood without insight into their distinctive and pervasive emergent geometrical forms. The city is, as it is often said to be, the creation of economic and social processes, but, it is argued, these processes operate within an envelope of geometric possibility defined by human minds in its interaction with spatial laws that govern the relations between objects and spaces in the world. | Abstract. What can we learn of the human mind by examining its products? Here it is argued that a great deal can be learned, and that the study of human minds through its creations in the real world could be a promising field of study within the cognitive sciences. The city is a case in point. Since the beginning of cities human ideas about them have been dominated by geometric ideas, and the real history of cities has always oscillated between the geometric and the ‘organic’. Set in the context of the suggestion from cognitive neuroscience that we impose more geometric order on the world that it actually possesses, an intriguing question arises: what is the role of geometric intuition in how we understand cities and how we create them? Here we argue that all cities, the organic as well as the geometric, are pervasively ordered by geometric intuition, so that neither the forms of the cities nor their functioning can be understood without insight into their distinctive and pervasive emergent geometrical forms. The city is, as it is often said to be, the creation of economic and social processes, but, it is argued, these processes operate within an envelope of geometric possibility defined by human minds in its interaction with spatial laws that govern the relations between objects and spaces in the world. | ||
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RECENT PAPER: The Art of Place and the Science of Space | RECENT PAPER: The Art of Place and the Science of Space | ||
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Special Edition, World Architecture | Special Edition, World Architecture | ||
Latest revision as of 03:33, 17 December 2007
Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology
Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
Director, Space Syntax Laboratory
University College London
Pioneer of the Space Syntax analytical methodology
Project consultant, Space Syntax consultancy
NEW PAPER: Cities, Mind and Societies: Geometrical Explorations Towards a Design Level Analytic Theory
Part 1: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES1.pdf Part 2: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES2.pdf Part 3: http://www.tectics.com/hillierCITIES,MINDS&SOCIETIES3.pdf
Bill writes: "[The paper] talks about the object of research being to change the designer's understanding of what it is they are designing - hence what I call an analytic theory. I'm very concerned with the idea that good research and good theory can free the designer's mind and lead him or her to adventure into novel forms and spaces more securely. The last couple of pages of the text ... make links to the philosophy of science in a way that some might find either interesting or provocative."
NEW PAPER: A Note on the Intuiting of Form http://www.tectics.com/hillier99-intuitingofform.pdf
Bill writes: "...a short one I wrote about design a few years ago (with obvious reference to Chris Alexander) as a kind of reflection on 'design methods' after decades of developing space syntax. It is a kind of defence of informed intuition in architecture - as indeed is my book Space is the Machine. It raises question about patterns: how changing a part can change the whole, how patterns are different from different points of view and how these two things raise special kinds of problems in combining patterns - hence my abiding - and some might say unfashionable - interest in overall structure, albeit of the emergent kind."
NEW PAPER: The Golden Age for Cities? How We Design Cities is How We Understand Them http://www.tectics.com/hillier06--goldenagecities-urbdesign%201.pdf
Professor Bill Hillier sets out research priorities for the 21st Century
Issue 100, Urban Design, "Visions of the Future"
NEW PAPER: Studying Cities to Learn About Minds: How Geometric Intuitions Shape Urban Space and Make It Work Keynote Address, Conference on Spatial Cognition http://www.tectics.com/Hillier_SC06BREMEN_final090906%203.pdf
Abstract. What can we learn of the human mind by examining its products? Here it is argued that a great deal can be learned, and that the study of human minds through its creations in the real world could be a promising field of study within the cognitive sciences. The city is a case in point. Since the beginning of cities human ideas about them have been dominated by geometric ideas, and the real history of cities has always oscillated between the geometric and the ‘organic’. Set in the context of the suggestion from cognitive neuroscience that we impose more geometric order on the world that it actually possesses, an intriguing question arises: what is the role of geometric intuition in how we understand cities and how we create them? Here we argue that all cities, the organic as well as the geometric, are pervasively ordered by geometric intuition, so that neither the forms of the cities nor their functioning can be understood without insight into their distinctive and pervasive emergent geometrical forms. The city is, as it is often said to be, the creation of economic and social processes, but, it is argued, these processes operate within an envelope of geometric possibility defined by human minds in its interaction with spatial laws that govern the relations between objects and spaces in the world.
RECENT PAPER: The Art of Place and the Science of Space
http://www.tectics.com/hillier05-artofspace-english.pdf
Special Edition, World Architecture
"The best introduction to Space Syntax" - Bill Hillier
WORKING PAPER: Toward Evidence-Based Urban Design
http://www.spacesyntax.com/downloads/SpaceSyntax_TowardsEvidenceBasedUrbanDesign.pdf
OTHER PAPERS AND LINKS:
http://www.spacesyntax.org/publications/commonlang.html
http://www.spacesyntax.com/profile/billhillier.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_syntax
