Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture: Emerging Research and Opportunities - Softcover

Lee, Ju Hyun; Ostwald, Michael J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1799816990 ISBN 13: 9781799816997

Publisher: Business Science Reference, 2019

Synopsis

Shape grammar and space syntax have been separately developed but rarely combined in any significant way. The first of these is typically used to investigate or generate the formal or geometric properties of architecture, while the second is used to analyze the spatial, topological, or social properties of architecture. Despite the reciprocal relationship between form and space in architecture it is difficult to conceptualize a completed building without a sense of both of these properties the two major computational theories have been largely developed and applied in isolation from each another.

Grammatical and Syntactical Approaches in Architecture: Emerging Research and Opportunities is a critical scholarly resource that explores the relationship between shape grammar and space syntax for urban planning and architecture and enables the creative discovery of both the formal and spatial features of an architectural style or type. This book, furthermore, presents a new method to selectively capture aspects of both the grammar and syntax of architecture. Featuring a range of topics such as mathematical analysis, spatial configuration, and domestic architecture, this book is essential for architects, policymakers, urban planners, researchers, academicians, and students.

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About the Authors

Ju Hyun Lee is a Scientia Fellow and Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has published 70+ research publications and made significant contributions towards research in design computing and cognition. His international reputation has been recognised by being invited to be a reviewer/editorial board/committee member for international journals and conferences; international reviewer for grants. Ju Hyun was invited to become a visiting academic at the University of Newcastle in 2011, where he as a senior lecturer completed five-year post-doctoral studies in Architecture. He was Senior Research Fellow at the University of South Australia in 2018.

Michael J. Ostwald is Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Architecture at UNSW, Sydney. He has a PhD in architectural history and theory and a DSc in design mathematics and computing. Michael is Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Nexus Network Journal: Architecture and Mathematics (Springer) and on the editorial boards of ARQ (Cambridge) and Architectural Theory Review (Taylor and Francis). He is co-editor with Kim Williams of Architecture and Mathematics from Antiquity to the Future (Springer 2015), co-author with Josephine Vaughan of The Fractal Dimension of Architecture (Birkhäuser 2016) and co-author with Michael J. Dawes of The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa (Birkhäuser 2018).

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Science Reference
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1799816990
• ISBN 13: 9781799816997
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 351