Keywords: Architectural morphology; space syntax1; the spatial culture of institutions and organizations; design logic.
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1. Space syntax is a theoretical and methodological framework for describing layouts, their social logic, their cultural significance and their architectural meaning. At the urban scale, space syntax models the manner in which the functioning properties of urban layouts emerge from simpler generative principles; the manner in which urban layouts affect patterns of movement, co-presence and co-awareness; the manner in which spatial layouts affect the spatial economy of cities, including the distribution of land uses according to degrees of dependency upon the natural flow of movement; the intelligibility of layouts; the associations between different principles of spatial structures, societies, and cultures. Space syntax is used to evaluate alternative urban design and urban planning proposals; to evaluate the potential of sites arising from their situation in the urban fabric; to facilitate the formulation and elaboration of design ideas.