The Mathematics of the Modernist Villa Architectural Analysis Using Space Syntax and Isovists /

• Main Authors: Ostwald, Michael J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Dawes, Michael J. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Mathematics and the Built Environment, 3
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Architecture.; Mathematics in Art and Architecture.; Architectural History and Theory.

This book presents the first detailed mathematical analysis of the social, cognitive and experiential properties of Modernist domestic architecture. The Modern Movement in architecture, which came to prominence during the first half of the twentieth century, may have been famous for its functional f...

Table of Contents:

• Preface.-1. Introduction
• Part I Methods: 2. Space Syntax, Theory and Techniques
• 3. Spaces, Lines and Intersections
• 4. Isovist Analysis, Theories and Methods
• Part II Mies, Neutra and Murcutt: 5. Mies van der Rohe: Characteristics of the Free Plan
• 6. Richard Neutra: Spatial Theory and Practice
• 7. Glenn Murcutt: Form and Social Function
• Part III Frank Lloyd Wright: 8. Wright and Spatial Preference Theory
• 9. Experiencing Wright's Living Spaces
• 10
• Enticement In, and Through, Wright's Architecture
• 11. Conclusion
• References
• Index.