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April 19, 2005

M. Gordon Brown of Space Analytics provides key information in $5.9 million award in intellectual property case in Los Angeles Federal Court. See the story.

January, 2005

"Large-Scale Street Geometry and Traffic Congestion" by M. Gordon Brown, Stephen E. Roulac of The Roulac Group, San Rafael, CA and Andrew R. Goetz, Professor of Geography at the University of Denver will be presented at the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences Annual Meeting.

November 3, 2004

At the Urban Land Institute's New York meeting, M. Gordon Brown described shape-networks for the session, "Innovations in Construction and Development Technology." See the Powerpoint presentation.

Spring, 2004

"Why Can't a Building Be More Like a Machine?" by M. Gordon Brown and Stephen E. Roulac of The Roulac Group, San Rafael, CA, was in the spring 2004 issue of Real Estate Issues published by the Couselors of Real Estate.

People

M. Gordon Brown, Principal

BS in Communications, University of Illinois, Urbana; MBA, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School; MSc (Architecture) (thesis distinction), University of London, Bartlett School; DTech, Ulster University.

Gordon is also Fellow of the University, Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands; of counsel with The Roulac Group in San Rafael, California and was managing director of Space Syntax, Ltd, London.

He has appeared on Court TV and was interviewed on Public Radio's Marketplace program. He has lectured widely in the United States and overseas and has published over 100 articles and reviews. His columns have appeared regularly in The Denver Business Journal.

Gordon received a Homer Hoyt Advanced Studies Institute Leadership Award in 2000 and an American Real Estate Society prize for the best paper on retail real estate sponsored by the International Council of Shopping Centers in 1998 and was a recipient of a grant for work on public forums by the Colorado Endowment for the Humanities. He was the Cass Gilbert Visiting Lecturer at the University of Minnesota, College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture in 1998, a Walter Wagner Forum Finalist, Architectural Record and The American Institute of Architects in 1989 and a Visiting Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow at the University of London in 1985.

Stephen N. Brown, Economic Consultant

BA, Colorado State University; MA, PhD (Ford Foundation Fellow), University of Denver; MS (Energy economics), University of Wyoming.

Jane K. Schade, Research Consultant and Manager

BA, Hope College; MSEd, Moorhead State University; PhD, Arizona State University.

Publications

Our work has appeared in a variety of scientific journals, professional and trade journals and magazines including Architectural Record, Metropolis, Progressive Architecture, Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Real Estate Research, Journal of Real Estate Literature, Trial Talk, Claims, Real Estate Issues, Urban Land, and CIO Journal.

M. Gordon Brown and Stephen E. Roulac, Why Can't a Building Be More Like a Machine? Real Estate Issues, Spring 2004. pdf

Roy T. Black, M. Gordon Brown, Julian Diaz, Karen M. Gibler and Terry V. Grissom, Behavioral Research in Real Estate: A Search for the Boundaries, Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education, 6:1, 85-112, 2003.

M. Gordon Brown, Choosing a company's building design using the architectural design competition, Journal of Real Estate Research, 22:1/2, 81-106, 2001. pdf

M. Gordon Brown, Design and Value: Spatial form and the economic failure of a mall, Journal of Real Estate Research, 17:2, 189-225, 1999. pdf

M. Gordon Brown, The Emergence of Two Cultures of Building, Forum II: Architectural Education for the 3rd Millennium, Eastern Mediterranean University, Gazimagusa, TRNC,1998.

M. Gordon Brown, Autopsy of a Shopping Center, Urban Land Institute, Washington, D.C., September, 1994.

History

M. Gordon Brown founded Space Analytics in 1989 to address functional issues that are frequently misunderstood in architecture and urban design and planning. During the previous decade he had been an architecture professor and university administrator in Chicago, Phoenix and Denver and manager of the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

Our early work involved problem properties (many shopping centers) and information-intense workplaces (offices and health care). We expanded our work on problem properties to include shopping streets and other public and mixed use areas. Over this period we worked on several functional design failures including a great house in a remote mountain area in the West and a resort hotel on a Pacific island.

We later worked with appraisers and developed our expert witness activity through work on eminent domain, particularly access takings. Asked to research the design decisions on a 20-year old major public building project, the firm began its work on premises liability issues.

In previous research, we used the shape-network approach to decode the spatial 'signature' of famous architects. This has since been applied in the contexts of trade dress and architectural copyright litigation.

Representative Clients

Advanced Management Institute for Architecture and Engineering

Behle Law Corporation

Brad Adams Walker Architects

Centre Trust

Colfax Avenue Business Improvement District

David Owen Tryba Architects

Downtown Denver Partnership, Inc.

Fairfield and Woods, PC

Foley & Bezek, LLP

Herman Miller, Inc.

Hablinski + Manion Architects

Holland & Hart, LLP

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith, LLP

Meagher & Geer, PLLP

Nolan, Caddell & Reynolds, PA

ITT Industries

Rossi, Cox, Kiker & Inderwish, PC

The Roulac Group, Inc.

Sears & Swanson, PC

Spangler, Jennings & Dougherty, PC

T. Wade Welch & Associates

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP