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Space Syntax - Designing for how cities self-organize

Datum
Time
Event Label
Lecture
Organisational Units
Academy
Location Description
Room 211a, 2. Floor
Location Venue (1)
Main Building
Location Address (1)
Schillerplatz 3
Location ZIP and/or City (1)
1010 Vienna

Anna Rose from Space Syntax, London gives a lecture in the context of the Cities in Motion Workshop
Organized by Stefan Gruber and Markus Schäfer
Bachelor Studio in the Platform Geography Landscape Cities
Institute for Art and Architecture

Space Syntax provides a unique, evidence-based approach to theplanning and design of buildings and urban areas. The tools developedby the company together with University College London have been widelyused in architecture and urban regeneration projects and to empowerpeople to make informed decisions about the key issues concerning them.As part of Cities in Motion workshop this lecture will give anintroduction to various Space Syntax methodologies, including movementand spatial analysis as well as to the strategic design approach of theconsultancy.

Anna Rose is an architect with a specialism in urban design andmasterplanning. She is a director of Space Syntax Limited and has beenwith the consultancy since 2002, advising clients in design &masterplanning processes. She has lectured widely to architectural andlandscape design audiences across the EU. Her recent project workincludes the concept-masterplanning of the central urban area site inJeddah, Saudi Arabia, advice on the recent redesign of Nottingham's OldMarket Square in the UK, and a study on landscape and public realmimprovements to a large housing estate in East London, Shoreditch.