Shape grammars is a powerful formal system for the generative description of designs. Their unique difference with all other generative systems is that they perform entirely visual computations rather than symbolic computations ... [more]

The subject of architectural design and mathematics is one of the most pervading and perplexing topics in architecture discourse. This series of lectures looks at various ways mathematics has been used historically to describe ... [more]

An advanced examination of the shape grammar formalism and its relationship to akin ideas in a variety of other fields, including art, philosophy, history and philosophy of science, linguistics and psychology, literature ... [more]

Studies in the social, technological and aesthetic foundations of European Art and Architecture. This course is part of a three-course sequence on the interrelated subjects of architecture, urban design, and the arts from the Bronze Age ... [more]