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- Frichot, Hélène, 1970-
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On the Becoming-Indiscernible of the Diagram in Societies of Control
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - 2044-7507. ; 5:1, s. 1-14
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A diagram is a technology for thinking that secures an understanding of not just the static relations between the components that compose an architectural or urban space, but more importantly, the dynamic movements and potential for transformation of local environments, including the behaviour and habits that emerge between environment and inhabitant. The deployment of diagrams in a design and/or consultancy process can operate to analyse a pre-existing situation, as well as to speculate on how a near future can be spatially predicted, managed, and even controlled. In other words, the diagram can be both critical and projective. Nevertheless, what tends to be assumed is that the diagram is predominantly a graphic tool and that for the most part it translates ideas immediately and unproblematically, securing a clear path between concrete context and abstract idea. Even when a shift in emphasis is undertaken from the diagram as legible graphic object to a diagrammatics understood as an ongoing and open process that enables the transformation of peoples, places, and things, what tends to be forgotten are the less visible, non-discursive, and affective deployments of the diagram. As Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault have demonstrated, a diagram is also a site of struggle pertaining to the distribution of power relations as a composition or decomposition of forces. It follows that a diagram, conceived as diagrammatic process, has political implications. This essay tracks a brief journey following the vicissitudes of the dynamic diagram as it has been taken up in the theory and practice of architecture from the 1990’s onwards, and speculates on how far the diagram as diagrammatic process is wittingly and unwittingly used toward the management of contemporary societies of control. The becoming-indiscernible of the diagram in societies of control is the threshold beyond which the outlines of the human subject as project begins to dissipate, a moment of either terrifying dissolution, or else a point beyond which there might open new opportunities for other kinds of diagrams and other processes of subjectification.
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- Frykholm, Hannes, 1982-
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Staging the Intermission
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - London. - 2044-7507. ; 7:2, s. 165-178
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- Heyman, Axel, 1985, et al.
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Distances, accessibilities and attractiveness; looking at new approaches to include measures of urban form in hedonic pricing modelling
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - 2044-7507. ; 6:2, s. 213-224
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The population of Oslo increases rapidly and the corresponding demand of housing is an issue of great public, political and professional interest. Today, we can see several interesting discrepancies in the housing market, such as very high prices for dwellings with low technical standards and dwellings located in neighbourhoods very different from those planned and built today. There is a great diversity in the housing households’ willingness to pay. What are the patterns of such attractiveness in more detail and what might be the lessons to learn concerning what to build in the future? How can we plan and build housing that responds to the wide range of contemporary demands and that will also be attractive in decennials to come? Economists and real estate businesses provide statistics on prices of dwellings, but the variables examined are usually too general for the results to be useful for actual planning and design. However, space syntax based research has shown that locations in cities can be measured more specifically and that analyses of these measurements correlate with numerous phenomenon related to activities and attractiveness of cities. By applying space syntax based measurements in GIS, comparing housing prices with presumed relevant variables of buildings and neighbourhoods by means of hedonic regression analysis, it is possible to seize new knowledge about how specific urban form variables of buildings and neighbourhoods correlate with housing prices. By this approach, willingness to pay for dwellings has been examined in two studies in Stockholm and Copenhagen. This paper presents methods and some result of these studies. In brief, we see that continuous urban form measurements in GIS are significant for willingness to pay for dwellings. The specificity of these measurements achieved by GIS analyses, applying the Place Syntax Tool, provides new and more detailed knowledge in this field.
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- Koch, Daniel, 1976-
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Architecture Re-Configured
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - London : University College London. - 2044-7507. ; 1:1, s. 1-16
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The question of what differentiates architecture and building has been raised many times in Architecture Theory, with various responses or explanations – usually under the precondition that architecture is something more. It is one of the core questions of architecture theory. Inherent in the discussion seems to be how architecture becomes socially significant and how it conveys meaning. Continuing this line of inquiry, this paper examines how and why spatial configuration lies at the heart of architectural design and explores how and why space syntax research contributes to architecture per se. This is argued using a small set of socio-spatial figures commonly used in architectural design that formulate positions and situations based on discrepancies between configurative relations of visibility and accessibility. It is finally suggested that the conscious manipulation of these discrepancies is a core aspect of architectural design.
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- Koch, Daniel, 1976-
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Changing Building Typologies : The typological question and the formal basis of architecture
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - London : University College London. - 2044-7507. ; 5:2, s. 168-189
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The call for this themed issue formulates an interesting proposition, one that is a common conception – that people’s behaviour and, accordingly, the use of buildings is changing – and that this leads to the emer- gence of new building typologies. More specifically, it claims that ‘the reality of what is happening inside buildings nowadays is much more complex, diverse and multi-layered than a single word can describe.’ This paper intends to challenge the word ‘nowadays’, which places this situation as something historically unique and special. It will do this in order to conclude with a discussion of theory of analysing architecture.The first question to be examined is historical. While it may be true that building use is currently changing rapidly, it is equally true that this has happened before. Some of the most common ‘types’ are in fact under constant change, and this will be illustrated through the ‘shop’ and the ‘home’, concluded by a discussion on the perception of rapid change and historical stability as such. It will be suggested that this is partially embedded in a typological process. The second question is theoretical. It will be argued that the very idea of changing and more flexible use is tied to an idea of architecture with its roots in modernity, where ‘use’ became a central question to plan for, along with the development of a specific notion of function that was intimately connected to the notion of type. Many earlier ‘types’ were not as much use-adapted as ‘appropriate types’ for a range of reasons, sometimes even contrary to ‘use’. This discussion will explore the interdependency between conceptions of type and perceptions of the theoretical, disciplinary, and practical bases of architecture.Following this, the paper will conclude by drawing the strands together to discuss architectural analysis and the risks and potentials of typology as an analytical operation.
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- Koch, Daniel, 1976-, et al.
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Models and diagrams in architectural design
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - London : University College London. - 2044-7507. ; 5:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this issue is to contribute to the integration and communication between space syntax specifically, and architectural theory and practice in general. This aim comes both from a desire from our side, and a perceived potential for inspiring and rewarding contributions and developments from and to all sides in such an integration. This is neither a necessary nor obvious aim for space syntax research, but a potential that we would like to explore and a path we would like to see taken. However, we do think this aim comes with a range of consequences and questions to address, and the purpose of this issue is to contribute to address-ing some of these consequences and questions through its focus on diagrams and models, which forms only one, albeit arguably a crucial, part of such an endeavour. In stating it in this way, we do not mean to say that other steps have not been taken; it is a way to frame the topic of the issue that explains its intents in a clear manner.
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- Koch, Daniel, 1976-
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Sophia Psarra's Architecture and Narrative : The formation of space and cultural meaning
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - : UCL. - 2044-7507. ; 1:1, s. 246-248
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- (first paragraph of the review:)Architecture and Narrative: the formation of space and cultural meaning, looks at how meaning isconstructed in buildings and how it is communicated to the viewer. It does so by studying narrative through a series of contrasting studies, framing the question of narrative slightly differently in eachstudy. This gives the opportunity to study narrative not only from different perspectives, but in different historical periods. The book is not, however, a historical study of narrative in architecture but focuses on modernity - a limitation that seems to mostly have been for the better. It further focuses primarily on cultural buildings, and more specifically on museums. In a sense, this makes it a continuation of the discussions in Thomas A. Marcus Buildings & Power, which leaves off at the end of the 19th century. Nevertheless, Psarra's point of departure takes on the broad sweep of history. Thus, the first part of the book consists of a study of the Parthenon and the Erectheon, followed by an investigation of Mies' Barcelona Pavilion; the second part deals with architecture and narrative in literature through two chapters focusing on literary works of the 20th century by the Argentinean author Jean Luis Borges; the third part studies narrative in museums of history and art in a more or less chronological order; ending up with the fourth part which constitutes a theoretical synthesis and conclusion.
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- Kärrholm, Mattias
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In search of building types : On visitor centers, thresholds and the territorialisation of entrances
- 2016
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - 2044-7507. ; 7:1, s. 55-70
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this paper is to contribute to an actantial approach to building type studies through a study of the visitor centre and its role in contemporary spatial production. The article takes its empirical departure in the (from a Swedish perspective) intense urbanization of the Scania region, in the southern part of Sweden. Looking at building types in terms of actants implies that different sets of buildings can be abstracted in different ways (and not just in terms of form or function) depending on the effect they have in a certain situation. The proliferation of visitor centers in Scania is by no means an innocent development, these centers have a part to play (an actant role) in the urbanization process of the region. In this article I discuss this role as a kind threshold actant or type, which I further divide into four different subcategories in order to show connections with other sorts of spaces in the urban landscape. The discussion is then used both to highlight the role of visitor centers in recent processes of urbanization, and to argue for a more open-ended, relational and pragmatic approach to building types studies
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- Kärrholm, Mattias
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Space Syntax and Meta Theory
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of Space Syntax. - 2044-7507. ; 1:1, s. 251-253
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- Legeby, Ann, 1972-
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From Housing Segregation to Integration in Public Space : A Space Syntax Approach Applied on the City of Södertälje
- 2010
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Ingår i: The Journal of Space Syntax. - 2044-7507. ; 1:1, s. 92-107
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden, urban design and town planning is rarely addressed in anti-segregation initiatives. Architectural issues have more or less been confined to matters regarding housing policy. Although segregation is an inherently spatial concept, its spatial dimension is analysed using quite simple spatial models and weak theories on the relation between spatial and social phenomena, methods that provide few analytical insights from an urban design perspective. The Swedish cityscape is to a large extent characterized by post war development, strongly influenced by neighbourhood planning ideas.What is conspicuous in many of these areas is the extreme segregation of public space and that many neighbourhoods are relatively spatially isolated from the city as a whole. Since prevailing approaches are giving weak guidance for urban design there will be an attempt in this paper to in part reconceptualise the issue and possible generate new ideas on how to approach segregation within urban design.This paper investigates how configurational theories and methods can contribute to more nuanced descriptions of spatial relations within different neighbourhoods and in the city as a whole. If social segregation is related to segregation in public space it is essential to capture the configurational properties in a highly tangible way. The result shows that the space syntax approach has the ability to shed light on essential configurational differences between neighbourhoods and that these spatial descriptions give valuble insight regarding how urban form influences the spatial advantages that different areas afford. This opens for new possibilities for how policies in urban design can address the segregation problem that could be articulated with more efficient anti-segregation interventions, both on a neighbourhood level and on a city level.
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