Syntactic structures in architecture: teaching composition with computer assistance
The electronic design studio
Proceedings of the 28th annual conference on Computer graphics and interactive techniques
From Form to Content: Using Shape Grammars for Image Visualization
IV '05 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Information Visualisation
DUX '05 Proceedings of the 2005 conference on Designing for User eXperience
Procedural modeling of buildings
ACM SIGGRAPH 2006 Papers
Shape exploration of designs in a style: Toward generation of product designs
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation: from visualization to representation
The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation: from visualization to representation
Interactive visual editing of grammars for procedural architecture
ACM SIGGRAPH 2008 papers
The immediacy of the artist's mark in shape computation
ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Art Gallery
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The theory of shape grammars, first launched by Stiny and Gips in 1972, defines a formalism to support the ambiguity in creative processes that is generally ruled out by quantitative and symbolic computations. Since then, it has evolved into a ground-breaking pragmatist philosophy of shape and design. It is implemented in fields rnaging from architecture to art, graphic design, industrial design, and computer visualization. This course offers basic knowledge of the theory of shape grammars and some advanced issues useful for its implementation. The course is presented in two consecutive sessions. The introductory session presents the fundamentals of the theory, focusing on the basic knowledge of shapes, shape algebras, and shape rules in order to explain how shape grammars translate visual and spatial thinking into design computation. It includes several examples of shape grammar applications in design analysis and synthesis. Attendees with further and more technical interests in the topic are encouraged to continue with the advanced session, which dwells on the computational devices of shape grammars and discusses a number of selected studies on computational implementation of the shape grammar idea.