ABSTRACT

This unique guide provides a systematic overview of the idea of architectural space.

Bryan Lawson provides an ideal introduction to the topic, breaking down the complex and abstract terms used by many design theoreticians when writing about architectural space. Instead, our everyday knowledge is reintroduced to the language of design. Design values of 'space' are challenged and informed to stimulate a new theoretical and practical approach to design.

This book views architectural and urban spaces as psychological, social and partly cultural phenomena. They accommodate, separate, structure, facilitate, heighten and even celebrate human spatial behaviour.

chapter 1|13 pages

Space as language

chapter 2|28 pages

Space and the human dimension

chapter 3|27 pages

Mechanisms of perceiving space

chapter 4|31 pages

Ways of perceiving space

chapter 5|28 pages

Space and distance

chapter 6|36 pages

Proxemics

chapter 7|30 pages

The territory

chapter 8|36 pages

Space and time

chapter 9|19 pages

Recording space