Sinossi
Radical new theory of the spatial logic of buildings.
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Descrizione del libro
In this innovative book, Bill Hillier looks at a wide range of architectural and urban problems. Using new techniques of configurational analysis he shows that the patterns of space created by buildings are the key to how buildings and cities work for people.
Contenuti
Introduction; Part I. Theoretical Preliminaries: 1. What architecture adds to building; 2. The need for an analytical theory of architecture; 3. Non-discursive technique; Part II. Non-discursive Regularities: 4. Cities as movement economies; 5. Can architecture cause social malaise?; 6. Time as an aspect of space; 7. Visible colleges; Part III. The Laws of the Field: 8. Is architecture an ars combinatoria?; 9. The fundamental city; Part IV. Theoretical Syntheses: 10. Space is the machine; 11. The reasoning art; Index.
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