John Peponis is a professor of architecture at the Georgia Institute of Technology whose faculty he joined in 1989. He develops analytical concepts and methods for the description of built space and the measurement of its human affordances and functions. He was a part-time member of the faculty of the National Technical University of Athens, 1992-2005. As a researcher and lecturer at the Bartlett/UCL (1978-1988), he was among the co-creators of Space Syntax. He has collaborated with Kokkinou and Kourkoulas Architects since 1992 as an architectural consultant.

1. Architecture and spatial culture: an outline 2. A definition of spatial culture 3. On the pedagogical functions of the city: a morphology of adolescence in Athens, 1967-1973 4. Space designed. Patterns of architectural education, 1973-1983 5. Modalities of spatial culture and the role of design 6. Descriptions of space 7. Rich descriptions and correlative codes