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Since The Social Logic of Space was published in 1984 Bill Hillier and his colleagues at University College London have been conducting research on how space features in the form and functioning of buildings and cities. A key outcome is the concept of 'spatial configuration' - meaning relations which take account of other relations in a complex. New techniques have been developed and applied to a wide range of architectural and urban problems. The aim of this book is to assemble some of this work and show how it leads the way to a new type of theory of architecture: an 'analytic' theory in which understanding and design advance together. The success of configurational ideas in bringing to light the spatial logic of buildings and cities suggests that it might be possible to extend these ideas to other areas of the human sciences where problems of configuration and pattern are critical.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements = xi

Introduction = 1

Part one Theoretical preliminaries

 Chapter one What architecture adds to building = 15

 Chapter two The need for an analytic theory of architecture = 54

 Chapter three Non­discursive technique = 88

Part two Non­discursive regularities

 Chapter four Cities as movement economies = 149

 Chapter five Can architecture cause social malaise? = 183

 Chapter six Time as an aspect of space = 215

 Chapter seven Visible colleges = 240

Part three The laws of the field

 Chapter eight Is architecture an ars combinatoria? = 275

 Chapter nine The fundamental city = 335

Part four Theoretical syntheses

 Chapter ten Space is the machine = 371

 Chapter eleven The reasoning art = 407

Index = 448