Call for Papers - Thematic Collection: Design Computing and Cognition 2020
AIEDAM Special Issue, Volume 35, Number 4, Fall 2021; Guest Editors: Athanassios Economou & Yan Jin

Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters @ DCC'20
Kurt Hong will present the paper “Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the DCC'20 Conference, December 14, 2020

DCC'20 @ Georgia Tech
SCL will host the Ninith International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, December 14-16, 2020

Shape Matching Workshop @ DCC'20
Thanos Economou and Iestyn Jowers will host Shape Matching for CAD Workshop at Design Computing and Cognition 2020, with Chris Earl, Thomas Grasl, Ramesh Krishnamurti, Kristina Shea, Rudi Stouffs and Rob Woodbury, December 13, 2020

SCL @ National Chiao Tung University
Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong, James Park and Heather Ligler will lead a workshop at the Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 14, 2019

Shape Machine @ CMU
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, December 5, 2019

Shape Machine Workshop @ CMU
Kurt Hong will give a workshop on Shape Machine at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, December 5, 2019

Shape Machine A New Paradigm in Shape Search @ Emory University
Thanos Economou and Kurt Hong will give an invited brown bag talk at the Laboratory of Biochemical Pharmacology and Center for AIDS Structural Biology, Health Sciences Research Building, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, October 25, 2019

Shape Machine Summer Workshop with National Taiwan Institute of Technology, GT
Kurt Hong will lead a workshop on Shape Machine with National Taiwan Institute of Technology. Guest presentations will be given by Heather Ligler and James Park. The workshop is a collaboration with the School of Building Construction, Georgia Tech, July 1-26, 2019

Shape Machine and Smart Design @ Seoul National University
Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong and James Park will lead a workshop at the Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea, June 27, 2019

Shape Machine: A New Primer in Shape Computation @ KAIST
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the 3rd Cultural Workshop: Computational Studies on the Cultural Variation and Heredity in Daejeon, Korea, June 25, 2019

Entelechy @ Shape Machine Symposium, GT
Heather Ligler will give a talk on the formal description of J. Portman's house at the Shape Machine Symposium, Caddell Building, College of Design, Georgia Tech, April 11, 2019

Shape Parametrics @ Shape Machine Symposium, GT
James Park will give a talk on the role of shape signature on the parametric engine of Shape Machine at the Shape Machine Symposium, Caddell Building, College of Design, Georgia Tech, April 11, 2019

Shape Signature @ Shape Machine Symposium, GT
Cvetelina Hill will give a talk on the shape signature at the Shape Machine Symposium, Caddell Building, College of Design, Georgia Tech, April 11, 2019

Shape Grammar Interpreters @ Shape Machine Symposium, GT
Kurt Hong will give a talk on the history of the shape grammar interpreters at the Shape Machine Symposium, Caddell Building, College of Design, Georgia Tech, April 11, 2019

Shape Machine @ Shape Machine Symposium, GT
Thanos Economou and Kurt Hong will give a talk and interactive presentation of the Shape Machine software at the Shape Machine Symposium, Caddell Building, College of Design, Georgia Tech, April 11, 2019

IP / Shape Computational Technology @ USPTO
Kurt Hong, Thanos Economou, James Park and Heather Ligler filed a patent application at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO): “Shape Computational Technology”, No. 62/831,919, April 10, 2019

Geometric Explorations @ SimAUD
Thanos Economou will moderate the session Geometric Explorations at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SIMAUD), Atlanta, GA, April 9, 2019

From Drawing Shapes to Scripting Shapes @ SimAUD
Heather Ligler will give the talk "From Drawing Shapes to Scripting Shapes: Architecture Theory Mediated by Shape Machine", co-authored with Thanos Economou at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SIMAUD), Atlanta, GA, April 9, 2019

Shape Machines @ Cohen Gallery, Atlanta, GA
The SCL presents an exhibition of four pieces, “AlphaShape,” “ShapeHaus,” “PlayShape,” and “ShapeAtlas” at the Cohen Gallery, East Architecture Building, Georgia Institute of the Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 27 – April 11, 2019

Microcosms @ Lionel March Memorial Conference, Cambridge, UK
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Lionel March Memorial Conference, Cripps Court Magdalene College, Cambridge, UK, 20-21 March 2019

SCL @ IPaT, GT
Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong, and Heather Ligler will give the talk "Shape Machine: A Rule-Based Modeling and Programming System Developed at Tech", Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) Think Tank, February 21, 2019

NSF I-Corps Sites Program Award
Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong, James Park and Heather Ligler received an NSF I-Corps Sites Program Award for the Shape Machine Startup proposal, Venture Lab, Georgia Tech, 4926689, 12/1/2018 – 05/15/2019

CRRP Award @ CoD/GT
Thanos Economou received a Research Award to work on his Shape Computation book by the Office of the Associate Dean for Research, College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, 1 November 2018

Shape Computation @ U.Tsinghua, Beijing, China
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk on Shape Computation at the School of Architecture, University of Tsinghua, Beijing, China, October 27-28, 2018

Bauhaus Grammars @ SOA Exhibition Series
The work "Bauhaus Grammars" will be exhibited at the SOA Exhibition Series: I See What You Did There: Berlin, Cohen Gallery, Georgia Institute of the Technology, Atlanta, Sep. 04 – Sep. 28, 2018

Shape Machine Research Symposium Award
Thanos Economou received a Research Symposium Award for the Shape Machine Symposium from the Research Symposia Initiative, Office of the Dean, College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, 4901327, Sep 05 2018 - May 15, 2019

Portman Atria at DCC 08, Lecco, Italy
Heather Ligler will give the talk "On John Portman's Atria: Two Exercises in Hotel Composition", co-authored with Thanos Economou at the Eight International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition, Politecnico di Milano, Lecco, Italy, July 3, 2018.

Vitruvius Computatus @ Pisa, Italy
Thanos Economou will give the talk “Vitruvius Computatus: Notes on the Interpretation of the six Vitruvian principles of Architectural Design Framed within Contemporary Computational Design Discourse” at the NEXUS Architecture and Mathematics Conference, Pisa, Italy, June 13, 2018

Figuring Three Exhibition @ Architecture Biennial, Venice, Italy
Thanos Economou, Josephine Yu and James Park are invited to participate in the Architecture Biennial at Venice, Italy with the work "A Pictorial Enumeration of All Three-Line Shapes Based on an Underlying Triangular Structure" at the Palazzo Mora, Venice Italy, June 1 - September 30, 2018.

Shape Computation @ Springer
Thanos Economou signed a book contract with Springer for the book "Shape Computation" to be published in Spring 2020, #86998320, Springer, Computer Science, USA,

AI EDAM 32 (2) Cambridge University Press
The volume "Advances in Implemented Shape Grammars: Solutions and Applications", edited by Sara Eloy, Pieter Pauwels and Athanassios Economou, will be released as a special issue of the Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing (AIEDAM) 32 (2), Cambridge University Press, May 9, 2018

SCL @ DBL 2018 Symposium
Thanos Economou will present the application "Shape Machine" led by Kurt Hong and the SCL team at the DBL Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, May 8, 2018

CCI Grant @ GT Arts Council
Thanos Economou and Josephine Yu, School of Mathematics, received a Creative Curriculum Initiative (CCI) Grant from the GT Arts Council for the project "Shape Machine", May 6, 2018

Shape Grammars Workshop @ Berlin, Germany
Thanos Economou will give a five-week shape grammars workshop at the Georgia Tech UG Studio Study Abroad Program in Berlin, Germany, March 26- April 29, 2018

George Stiny’s talk at GT
George Stiny will give the talk "Design as Art and Use" and it will be followed by a discussion moderated by Thanos Economou with invited guests Yanni Loukissas (LMC), Kate Fu (ME) and Josephine Yu (Math), School of Architecture, Georgia Tech, March 01, 2018.

Vitruvius Computatus @ Athens, Greece
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk “Vitruvius Computatus: Notes on the Interpretation of the six Vitruvian principles of Architectural Design Framed within Contemporary Computational Design Discourse” at the Department of Architecture, Technical University of Athens, Greece, December 14, 2017

Brown-bag talk at CoC, Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk “The Allography Machine” at the seminar CS403: Computational Aesthetics, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 17, 2017

Shape and Form Studies @ eCAADe, Rome
Thanos Economou will moderate the session Shape and Form Studies at the 35th eCAADe Conference, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, Sep. 22, 2017

DBL Grant @ Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou and Josephine Yu, School of Mathematics at Georgia Tech, received a DBL grant for their research proposal "Shape Signature: A New Geometric Foundation for Building Information Modeling", Georgia Tech, September 2017

Contrapuntal Sieves @ Cohen Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Thanos Economou will participate at the SOA Faculty Work show, with the piece "Contrapuntal Sieves" at the Cohen Gallery, East Architecture Building, Georgia Institute of the Technology, Atlanta, August 30 – September 29, 2017

SCL @ Istanbul, Turkey
Hayri Dortdivanlioglu will present the work "Outlining Terragni: A Riddle Reworked" co-authored with Thanos Economou at the CAAD Futures 2017 Conference, Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, on July 12, 2017

SCL @ Design Divergence, Cohen Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Heather Ligler, James Park and Kurt Hong will participate at the exhibition “Design Divergence: Emerging Fields of Research in the College of Design”, at the Cohen Gallery, East Architecture Building, Georgia Institute of the Technology, Atlanta, March 14-31, 2017

NSF ESD/SYS
Thanos Economou will participate at the NSF ESD/SYS Program Workshop and Grantees Meeting: Future Directions in Engineering Design and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA January 20-22, 2017

Cultural DNA Workshop @ KAIST, Korea
Thanos Economou will present the paper "Paperless Grammars" co-authored with Thomas Grasl, at the Cultural DNA: Computational Studies on the Cultural Variation and Heredity Workshop, at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, on January 13, 2017

Brown-bag Talk at CoC, Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou and Kurt Hoang will give the brown-bag talk "Shape Computation: History, Logic and Implementation” at the College of Computing, TSRB Building, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 2, 2016

Spatial Sieves @ Cohen Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Thanos Economou will participate at the SOA Faculty Work show, with the piece "Spatial Sieves" at the Cohen Gallery, East Architecture Building, Georgia Institute of the Technology, Atlanta, August 20 – September 19, 2016

Shape grammar workshop @ DCC, Evanston, Chicago
Thanos Economou will give the opening talk "Shape Grammar Implementations: Two Approaches”, at the Advances in Shape Grammars Workshop, Seventh International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition (DCC) Northwestern University, Evanston, Chicago, June 26, 2016

Keynote talk @ the Continuum Conference, Nicosia, Cyprus
Thanos Economou will give a keynote talk "The Allography Machine" at the International Conference: From Xenakis to the Present: The Continuum in Music and Architecture, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 12-14, 2016

SCL @ DBL Symposium
James Park with present work of SCL in his talk “The Dirksen Model: Towards a New Approach to the Geometric Foundations of Building Information Models" at the Digital Building Lab Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, May 17, 2016

Symposium @ DBL
James Park with present work of SCL in his talk “Digital Building Type: A Knowledge-based tool to Visualize Building Type Expertise” at the Digital Building Lab Symposium, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, May 16, 2016

Design Review @ Clemson University
Thanos Economou will join the design review of the Digital Fabrication Class, inst. Joseph Choma, School of Architecture, Clemson University, April 27, 2016.

Student Project Award @ UNC Charlotte
Ran An, Zitong Ma, and Yue Zhao, students at Thanos Economou Shaping Justice studio, will present their studio project "Urban Bayou: A Design Proposal for the new Federal Courthouse in Mobile, AL" at the final stage of the CriticalMASS Competition, UNC Charlotte School of Architecture, April 7, 2016

CRRP Award @ Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou received a CRRP faculty award to complete the research "Shaping Justice: Towards a New Theory of Courthouse Design" by the Office of Associate Dean for Research, College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 2016

The Architecture of Emergence @ Open University, London, UK
Thanos Economou will be the PhD Exam Reader in Michael Weinstock: “The Architecture of Emergence”, PhD by Published Work, The Open University. Affiliated Research Centre Programme: Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, London, UK, Dec. 9, 2015

Looking Sideways @ AIA-AAJ, Miami
Thanos Economou and Heather Ligler will present the paper “Looking Sideways: Reframing Current Courthouse Design”, at the AIA-AAJ National Conference: Architecture for Social Justice, American Institute of Architects: Academy of Arch for Justice (AIA-AAJ), Miami, FL, Nov. 19, 2015

Lost in Translation @ SIGRADI, São Paulo, Brazil
Heather Ligler will present the paper “Lost in Translation: Towards an Automated Description of John Portman’s Domestic Architecture” at SIGRADI, University of Santa Catarina, Florianopolis, São Paulo, Brasil, Nov. 23-27, 2016

Keynote talk @ eCAADe, TU Vienna, Austria
Thanos Economou will give a keynote talk “Fundamentals Reconsidered: Facts, Fictions, Fabrications”, at the eCAADe, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2015

The Dirksen Variations @ eCAADe, Vienna, Austria
James Park will present the paper “The Dirksen Variations: Towards a Generative Description of Mies's Courthouse Language”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the eCCADe Conference, Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2015

Entelechy I @ eCAADe, Vienna, Austria
Heather Ligler will present the paper “Entelechy I: Towards a Formal Specification of John Portman's Domestic Architecture” at eCAADe, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, September 17, 2015

Chatushala Houses @ IIT, Kharagpur, India
Thanos Economou will be the PhD Exam Reader in Santosh Kumar, K.G: “Contemporary Chatushala Houses of Kerala: A Shape Grammar Model for Layout Generation”, Department of Architecture and Regional Planning, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India, March 2015

Pr. Economou and Judge Bremer @ AIA/AJA, Miami
A debate between a professor of architecture and a federal judge examines courtrooms and courthouses through an analysis of the history and logic of their design. The talk/debate will be held at the AIA-AAJ National Conference, Architecture for Social Justice, American Institute of Architects: Academy of Arch for Justice (AIA-AAJ), St. Louis MO, November 6, 2014

Heather Ligler and James Park get AIA/AJA Scholarships
Heather Ligler and James Park, graduate research assistants in SCL, were awarded the AIA/AAJ Conference Scholarship for their work on courthouse design at SCL, October 2014

64 Wakefield @ DCA, GA
Jeff Collins will present the paper “64 Wakefield: Tips on House Design Formalized”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the Design Communication Conference, Southern Polytechnic State University, Marietta, GA, October 2, 2014

Shape < > Schemata @ UCL, London, UK
Thanos Economou will present the paper “From Shape Rules to Rule Schemata and Back”, co-authored with Sotirios Kotsopoulos, at the Design Computing and Cognition Conference (DCC’14) at UCL, London, UK, June 24, 2014

Visual Sieve @ METU, Ankara, Turkey
Thanos Economou will present the paper “Visual Sieves: Studies in Decomposition of Spatial and Sonar Patterns" co-authored with Thomas Grasl, at the Nexus conference for architecture and mathematics, at the Middle East Technical University (METU),Ankara, Turkey, June 10, 2014

Serial Configurations @ AIAS
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk with title "Serial Configurations" at the AIAS South Quad Conference, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, March 29, 2014

Shape grammars @ eCAADe, Delft
Thanos Economou will moderate the Shape Grammar session at the31st eCAADe Conference, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, September 20, 2013

Unambiguity @ Delft, Netherlands
Thomas Grasl will present the paper “Unambiguity: Difficulties in Communicating Shape Grammar Rules to a Digital Interpreter”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at eCAADe, at the Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, September 19, 2013

Spatial Sieves @ Volos, Greece
Thanos Economou and Thomas Grasl will give a talk with title "Spatial Sieves" discussing their work on Xenakis’ sieves at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, May 28, 2013

Design Machine Revisited @ Vienna, Austria
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk with title "Design Machine Revisited" at the School of Architecture, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2013

Landhuggers: On the Aesthetics of Variation @ Volos, Greece
Thanos Economou and Thomas Grasl will give a two-week design workshop at the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Greece, on generative and parametric modeling techniques in studio, May 1-7 / 24-30, 2013

Courthouse Design Workshop @ GT, Atlanta, GA
A courthouse design workshop will discuss the current research of SCL on courthouse design. Participants include architects from GSA, US Courts, professional firms in Atlanta and faculty and students from COA, March 6, 2013

x -> T(x) @ YAF & GT
Kelly Heyer’s and Woody Woodhurst’s studio project “x -> T(x)” prepared under the supervision of Thanos Economou, was exhibited at the Young Architects Forum Exhibition and the SOA Fall Exhibition, COA Atrium, Georgia Tech, December 2012

Interview @ Architectural Geometry Exhibition, Center Pompidou, Paris, France
Thanos Economou discusses his shape grammar course and work in the Georgia Tech Computational Research, Design, and Manufacturing video directed by Tristan Al-Haddad for the AG Exhibition at Pompidou, September 9, 2012

Design + Research Studio Faculty Award @ SOA
Kelly Heyer and Woody Woodhurst, GR students at the School of Architecture (SOA) at Georgia Tech received the Design + Research Studio Faculty Award for their studio courthouse project under the supervision of Thanos Economou, April 24, 2012

EEC HQAA @ Syros, Greece
Thanos Economou will join the International External Experts Committee (EEC) of the Hellenic Quality Assurance Agency (HQAA) for Higher Education, Greece to evaluate the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering of the University of Aegean, Syros, Greece, June 25–30, 2012

PURA Award @ GT
Emily Lenke, UG student at GT, received a President’s Undergraduate Research Award (PURA) from Georgia Tech during summer 2012 for her work on the formal analysis of Greek Temples under the supervision of Thanos Economou

WYSIWYG @ German Research Foundation, NY, NY
Thanos Economou and Thomas Grasl will give an invited talk with title "WYSIWYG: What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" at the Spatial Cognition for Architectural Design Symposium, German Center for Research and Innovation (GCRI), NY, NY, November 18, 2011

Allographies @ North England Conservatory (NEC), Boston, MA
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk on his work on Xenakis’ sieves in the Conference “Xenakis and His Legacy”, at the North England Conservatory (NEC), Boston, November 11, 2011

M.Sc.ARCH Reviews @ MIT
Thanos Economou will join the Masters of Science in Architecture Studies in Computation Thesis Review Panel, School of Architecture, MIT, May 7, 2011

Allographies @ Greek Institute, Cambridge
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk with title "Symmetry in Architecture and Music" in the 2011 Lecture series Greeks Speak: Authors, Scholars, Scientists, Artists at the Greek Institute, Cambridge, MA, April 11, 2011

GRAPE @ SimAUD, Boston
Thomas Grasl will present the paper “GRAPE: Using graph grammars to implement shape grammars”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SimAUD), Boston, MA, April 5, 2011

B.Arch Reviews @ MIT
Thanos Economou will join the studio review of the Applied Architecture Design Studios by Skylar Tibbits, Nick Gelpi and William O'Brien at the School of Architecture, MIT, March 18, 2011

Architectural Topologies @ MIT, Cambridge
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk on his current research work on shape grammars in formal analysis and design at the MIT Computation Group, the School of Architecture, MIT, March 4, 2011

Teaching Award @ GT
Thanos Economou received an Outstanding Teacher Award for his course on Shape Grammars, Center of Enhancement of Teaching and Learning, Georgia Tech, March 3, 2011

Architectural Topologies @ GT
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Research Forum discussing his current research work on shape grammars in formal analysis and design, at the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, February 24, 2011

Palladian Graphs @ ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Thanos Economou will present the paper “Palladian Graphs: Using a Graph Grammar to Automate the Palladian Grammar”, co-authored with Thomas Grasl, at the eCAADe 2010 Conference, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland, September 16, 2010

Grammatiken @ TU Vienna
Thanos Economou will give a three-days Design grammars workshop at the School of Architecture, Technical University of Vienna, Austria, May 18-20, 2010

Digital Architectural Narratives @ Puerto Rico
Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Digital Architectural Narratives Lecture Series, at the School of Architecture, Puerto Rico, March 25, 2010

Spatial Sieves @ Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, NY, NY
Thanos Economou and Thomas Grasl will give an invited talk at the 2010 Xenakis Forum at the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, NYU Polytechnic, NY, NY, January 28, 2010