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This section begins to explain how the social, cognitive and experiential properties
of space can be conceptualised in architectural terms. All of these concepts are
developed in later chapters, but in this section some general principles are intro-
duced. Throughout this section it is also worth remembering that social structures
tend to be spatial, time is often associated with cognition and experience with
movement. Thus, a partial mapping is possible between the three main themes of
this book (social, cognitive and experiential), and three major themes of the
Modernist tradition (space, time and movement).
Social factors are those that relate to the organisation of a collective or group (Firth
1971). A society is effectively a group of people who share a pattern of relation-
ships, attitudes or behaviours (Merton 1957). Such patterns are normally referred to