The space-organisation relationship [Elektronische Ressource] : on the shape of the relationship between spatial configuration and collective organisational behaviours / Kerstin Sailer

Kerstin Sailer THE SPACE-ORGANISATION RELATIONSHIP On the Shape of the Relationship between Spatial Configuration and Collective Organisational Behaviours Dissertation zur Erlangung des Grades Dr. der Ingenieurwissenschaften Vorgelegt an der Fakultät Architektur der TU Dresden Von Dipl.-Ing. Kerstin Sailer, geb. 23. August 1976 in Füssen Öffentliche Verteidigung: 04. Juni 2010 Gutachter: Prof. Dr. Gunter Henn, Lehrstuhl Industriebau, Fakultät Architektur, TU Dresden Prof. Alan Penn, Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Acknowledgements I would like to thank Professor Gunter Henn for his advice and guidance throughout the course of this dissertation. His enthusiasm for ideas and concepts and how they can be applied in architecture was a constant source of inspiration. It was him who got me interested in the topic of collective behaviours in workplace environments in the first place, and I am thankful for this wise suggestion, which proved to be a fruitful, interesting and challenging area of research. In my second year of research I visited UCL as an Affiliate Research Student with the generous help of the German Academic Exchange Service DAAD, and encountered a whole new world of architectural research in the Space Syntax research community. Many thanks are due to Professor Alan Penn for his guidance and support.