"Many observers have suggested that capitalism is fast destroying our planet, concentrating power in a few big companies. Excessive short-termism, leveraged debt, digitisation and disruption are the new normal. We stand at a critical juncture where the two paths ahead could lead to very...

This paper introduces a new method, known as small-graph matching, and demonstrates how it may be used to determine the genotype signature of a sample of buildings. First, the origins of the method and its relationship to other ‘similarity’ testing techniques are discussed. Then the range of...

This prospective research study was conducted at a government office which moved from an open-plan office with somewhat enclosed workspaces to another open-plan office with open workspaces. The study at the old office was conducted almost one year before the move, and the study at the new office...

This study analyzes a longitudinal series of Ankara apartment houses using space syntax methodology to uncover the underlying genotype and its transformation over time. The results indicate that transition-space-centred organization is the underlying spatial structure for 20th-century Ankara...

In this paper we report a study that uses space-syntax theories and techniques to develop a model explaining how spatial layouts, through their effects on movement and visible copresence, may affect face-to-face interaction in offices. Though several previous space-syntax studies have shown that...

We report a study designed to test whether visitors to virtual exhibition environments are sensitive to patterns of display covisibility. We show that visitors’ assessment of the clarity of presentation of a pictorial theme is associated with the degree of covisibility of member works. We also...

From the point of view of a situated observer, the physical shape of buildings creates spatial relationships only some of which are present in perception while others are inherent in abstract descriptions of the objective structure of environment retrieved in the mind. In this paper the...

Two measures of floorplate shape, a measure of universal metric distance and a measure of convex fragmentation, are developed to study the effect of building shells upon the spatial structure of office layouts. Layouts are represented according to the fewest-lines map typically used in syntactic...