The famous modernist architect Richard Neutra argued that movement through, and understanding of a building could be choreographed by controlling the visual stimuli that is available to a person. These claims are tested by quantifying the lines of sight and intelligibility of five of Neutra's residential designs. A computational method, weighted axial line analysis, is used to investigate lines of sight and movement in five of Neutra's house designs. The cumulative lengths of axial lines required to reach public and private spaces are compared, and centrality measures are calculated for each design that are weighted with line length data. Intelligibility metrics are calculated from these centrality measures. The first hypothesis, that visual stimuli in Neutra's architecture is greater when accessing public rather than private spaces is supported by the results. The second hypothesis, that Neutra's architecture is highly intelligible, is not supported by the results. This research tests two theories used to explain the works of a famous architect and it develops a new variation of well-known Space Syntax technique, to account for axial line lengths.

著名的现代主义建筑师理查德·诺伊特拉 (Richard Neutra) 认为，可以通过控制一个人可用的视觉刺激来编排穿过建筑物的动作和对建筑物的理解。这些说法是通过量化 Neutra 的五种住宅设计的视线和清晰度来检验的。一种计算方法，加权轴线分析，用于调查 Neutra 的五个房屋设计中的视线和运动。比较到达公共和私人空间所需的轴线的累积长度，并计算每个设计的中心性度量，这些设计用线长度数据加权。可理解度指标是根据这些中心性度​​量计算的。第一个假设，即 Neutra' 中的视觉刺激 当结果支持访问公共空间而不是私人空间时，s 的体系结构会更好。结果不支持第二个假设，即 Neutra 的架构是高度可理解的。这项研究测试了用于解释一位著名建筑师作品的两种理论，并开发了一种著名的空间句法技术的新变体，以解释轴线长度。