Andrew Locke joined Space Syntax Limited as a Consultant in 2025 after completing a four-month internship at the firm.
Andrew is particularly interested in the intelligibility of buildings and cities—namely, the ways in which space users’ immediate, perceptible surroundings work to signify and convey their relationship to the larger architectural and urban wholes to which they belong. In his work at Space Syntax, he seeks accordingly to develop and contribute to a context-sensitive design approach that learns from, preserves, and builds upon the part-whole relations present within existing buildings and cities, with the aim of reflecting and extending the organic processes of design and construction underlying traditional built forms.
Andrew received a Master of Science in Space Syntax (with distinction) from The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London in 2024. His academic background lies in the humanities and social sciences, having graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2014 with bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and economics. Andrew’s academic contributions to urban and architectural morphology have focused on clarifying and extending the mathematical and theoretical foundations of space syntax’s methodologies for characterising the built environment. Motivated by a desire to understand the essential morphological characteristics of postwar urban forms, Andrew articulated in his MSc dissertation a novel topological model of spatial connectivity, developing computational algorithms (implemented in Python) that measure discontinuity between spatial networks and between parts and wholes within a network.
Andrew has extensive experience in the legal field working to interpret and communicate the technical and scientific expertise of researchers and other professionals in layman’s language. He is fluent in both English and German.
2024 MSc in Space Syntax: Architecture & Cities, Bartlett School of Architecture, London
2014 BA in Philosophy & BA in Economics, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.
