Space Syntax

Discover the visionary ideas that redefined architecture and urbanism--Bill Hillier's most influential writings on space syntax, all in one critical volume.

Few scholars have reshaped our understanding of architecture and urban design as profoundly as Bill Hillier. Space Syntax compiles the most influential works from his career, spanning over half a century, to showcase the evolution of his innovative theories on the spatial structure of cities and the social functions of built environments.

Including his early explorations of architecture as a research discipline and his later theories on how spatial configurations influence human movement and urban vitality, this collection provides a definitive overview of Hillier's intellectual legacy. Featuring newly redrawn figures, rare texts, and expert introductions from leading theorists and practitioners, the volume offers fresh viewpoints on the continued relevance of space syntax in contemporary research and practice.

Relevant to subjects ranging from archaeology to physics, Space Syntax cements Hillier's place as a revolutionary thinker whose ideas continue to shape how we design and understand space.

Laura Vaughan is Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, where she is Professor of Urban Form and Society. Following an architectural design degree at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem, Israel, she studied for an MSc and PhD at the Lab. After several years working with Bill Hillier at Space Syntax Limited, she returned to UCL in 2001 as lecturer and Programme Director, MSc Advanced Architectural Studies (now MSc/MRes Space Syntax). She has been the Lab’s Director since 2014. John Peponis is Professor of Architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology since 1989. He served as a part-time member of the faculty at the National Technical University of Athens, 1992–2005. As a researcher and lecturer at the Bartlett (1978–1988), he was among the co-creators of space syntax and the first doctoral graduate supervised by Bill Hillier (1983). Ruth Conroy Dalton has been Professor of Architecture at the University of Northumbria at Newcastle since 2010. She studied for her BSc, MSc and PhD at University College London, the latter supervised by Bill Hillier (2001). Her first academic appointment was at the Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001–2004, after which she returned to UCL where she served briefly, 2007–2009, as Joint-Programme Director, MSc Advanced Architectural Studies (now MSc Space Syntax).

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