One of the main favourite quotes from John Peponis book on 'Spatial Cultures':
"Space Syntax allows us to think of space as already social and already functional before we engage the specific programmes of building types." (p. 134)
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Another shout out to the amazing book John Peponis has written on 'Spatial Cultures' - highly recommended read for everyone interested in how and why the composition and structure of the built environment matters to how we situate ourselves in the world, how we relate to things and other people, and thus how we behave
More info on the book:
https://www.routledge.com/Architecture-and-Spatial-Culture/Peponis/p/book/9781032500423
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Built space supports our daily habits and our membership of communities, organizations, institutions, or social formations. Architecture and Spatial Culture argues that architecture matters because it makes the settings of our life intelligible, so that we can sustain or creatively transform them. As technological and social innovations allow us to overcome spatial constraints to communication, cooperation, and exchange, so the architecture of embodied experience reflects independent cultural ch
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