Name:
Daniel Koch

Title:
Ph.D., Researcher, Teacher
KTH School of Architecture

Architect, Analyst
Patchwork Architecture Laboratory

Biography
Daniel Koch is a Ph.D. from the KTH School of Architecture now active as researcher and teacher there, and as designing architect at Patchwork Architecture Laboratory (co-founded in 2007). In 2004 he published Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning: The Idea of Knowledge in Three Public Libraries, on three major Swedish libraries, and in 2007 he published his Ph.D. Structuring Fashion: Department Stores as Situating Spatial Practice, published by Axl Books. Since then he has done research continuing this study and on small retail or community centres. Daniel Koch was also member of the Organising Committee of the 7th International Space Syntax Symposium, and editor of the proceedings. His research focuses on developing the critical analysis potentials of spatial analysis (including space syntax) in relation to ideals, values, and representation.

PRELIMINARY Abstract
Spatial and material form, the tools and modes of architects, participate in shaping our lives in many ways which are not detirminate but strongly influential. One of the ways in which it does this is by spatial configuration - that is, the setup of relations between spaces - which responds to and describes social relations as well as potentials, possibilities, restrictions, and suggestions. This both through practical and communicative means, and in a great many ways. Research at sad tries to focus more specifically at these components of the physical environment, and some intriguing results have been produced both when it comes to buildings and urban environments. Critical for these findings have been the involvement of different theories and methods that complement one another, and the development of new models of analysis. This presentation aims to briefly present some of these models and results.