Space Syntax: The Language of Museum Space

A Companion to Museum Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 282-301

  Hillier, Bill ^a   Tzortzi, Kali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Curatorial; Galleries; Layout shapes; Space in buildings; Space syntax

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890965811     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470996836.ch17     Document Type: Chapter

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