Space Syntax: Selected papers by Bill Hillier
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Space Syntax: Selected papers by Bill Hillier provides a canon of works that reflects the progression of Hillier’s ideas from the early publications of the 1970s to his most recent work, published before his death in 2019. This selection of influential works ranges from his papers on architecture as a professional and research discipline, through to his later papers that present a theory of the spatial structure of the city and its social functions. By bringing together writing from across his career-span of half a century, with specially commissioned introductions by a wide range of international experts in the field, we are able to contextualise and show the range and evolution of Hillier’s key ideas.
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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).
