2025

Shape Computation @ Springer

Thanos Economou published the paper “Shape Machine: Shape-Based Search and Replace in CAD”. In: Kotsopoulos, S. (eds) Shape Computation. Mathematics and the Built Environment, vol 9. Birkhäuser, Cham, December 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81623-9_16

Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems

YeonTae Chung presented the paper “Modeling the Viewpoint Theory of Mental Rotation”, coauthored with Vijay Marupudi, Siddhartha Krishna Vemuri, Athanassios Economou, Sashank and published at the Twelfth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Atlanta GA, November 6, 2025. https://openreview.net/forum?id=0R0VWvE4VL

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on December 18, 2025, and a full-day workshop on Shape Machine the next day on December 19, 2025

University of Patras, Greece

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Department of Architecture, School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, on March 21, 2025

Concave Lighting Talk Series

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Concave Lighting Talk Series, n.03, ARCH East 214, Georgia Institute of Technology, on Tuesday, November 4, 2025

TechMade Symposium @GT

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the TechMade Symposium: Human-Centered Design. Design Bloc, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 30, 2025.

Hedral grant

SCL received a $10K grant to pursue an Exploratory Research Collaboration with Hedral Co, San Francisco, CA on 2D-to-3D Geometry Conversion for Infrastructure design (ICOL - GR00033143, AWD-007278) in June 2025.

Provisional US Patent Application

Thanos Economou and Russell Newton filed for a provisional US Patent Application 63/783,271 “Shape systems and Methods II”. Georgia Tech Research Corporation (GTRC) Reference Number: 2024–217 on April 4, 2025.

Bartlett School of Architecture

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Architectural Computation Lecture Series, Bartlett School of Architecture, London, UK, on March 19, 2025

VIP @ Georgia Tech

Yichao Shi, Zac Guo, and Thanos Economou launched the new VIP 2601/3601/3602/4601/6601.VY5 Shape Machine class at Georgia Tech, January 2025

2024

University of North Carolina, NC

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Department of Computer Science, College of Computing and Informatics, University of North Carolina, on December 4, 2024

Gothic Suprematist Machine Studio review

Thanos Economou will participate in the Gothic Suprematist Machine Studio review, instructor Sabri Gokmen, School of Architecture, University of North Carolina UNC, December 4, 2024.

University of Hawaii

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the School of Architecture, University of Hawai‘i, on November 18, 2024

University of Thessaly

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the School of Architecture, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece, November 5, 2024.

GT Planning, Design, and Construction

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Infrastructure and Sustainability: Planning, Design, and Construction Department at Georgia Institute of Technology, on October 9, 2024

Adjunct Professorship

Thanos Economou was reappointed as an Adjunct professor at the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 2024.

AIA+A Salon, NY

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the AIA+A Salon, AIA NY Center for Architecture, New York City, on September 13, 2024.

Redefining Line Maximization

Russell Newton and Thanos Economou published the paper “Redefining Line Maximization” In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’24. DCC 2024. Springer, Cham, pp 250–264, September 2024. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-71918-9_16

Dougong Revisited

Yichao Shi and Thanos Economou published the paper “Dougong Revisited: A Parametric Specification of Chinese Bracket Design in Shape Machine”. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’24. DCC 2024. Springer, Cham, pp 233–249. September 2024 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-71918-9_15

Shape meets Euclid

Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong, and Russell Newton published the paper “Shape meets Euclid: Integrating shape computation with ruler and compass procedures” in Automation in Construction, Volume 165, 105562, September 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105562

2024 CIOS Honor Roll

Thanos Economou received a Summer 2024 CIOS Honor Roll, recognized for ARCH 3007: Art and Arch in Greece, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, August 2024.

Paper Award

Russell Newton received the Best Design Computation Award for his paper “Redefining Line Maximization in Shape Machine” co-authored with A Economou, at the DCC’24 Conference, July 11, 2024.

DCC24

Russell Newton will give a presentation of the paper “Redefining Line Maximization” co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the Design Computing and Cognition’24 (DCC24), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on July 9, 2024.

DCC24

Yichao Shi will give a presentation of the paper “Dougong Revisited: A Parametric Specification of Chinese Bracket Design in Shape Machine.” Co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the Design Computing and Cognition’24 (DCC24). Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, on July 9, 2024.

Design Computing and Cognition 2024 Workshop

Thanos Economou and Iestyn Jowers will co-organize a workshop with title “New Directions in Shape Grammars” at the Design Computing and Cognition 2024 Conference, Concordia University, Montréal, Canada, on July 7, 2024.

Undergraduate Research Fair

Yichao Shi and Russell Newton will make a poster presentation at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fair, Georgia Tech, on April 18, 2024

AI for Lifetime Learning Symposium

Russell Newton and Yichao Shi will make a poster presentation at the AI for Lifetime Learning Symposium, GLC Amphitheater 222, Georgia Tech, on April 4, 2024.

VIP Seed Grant

Thanos Economou received a $5K VIP Program Seed Grant for the launching of the VIP Team Shape Machine, Vertically Integrated Projects Program, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2024.

IPaT Research Showcase

Russell Newton and Yichao Shi will make a poster presentation at the IPaT Research Showcase/Interactivity demo, Georgia Tech, on February 6, 2024

2023

PhD thesis defense

James Park defended his PhD thesis with title “The Dirksen Variations: A Formal Specification of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Judicial Architecture”, at the School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2017–2023. James currently holds a Tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment at the School of Architecture, Montana State University.

National Technical University of Athens

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, on November 6, 2023

Neuro Next

“Shape Machine: Shape-based search (⌘-F) and shape-based replace (⌘-R) in CAD/CAM”. Neuro Next Launch Event, Marcus Nanotechnology Building, Atlanta, GA, October 26, 2023

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY on October 23, 2023

Freshman studio talk

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Freshman studio, Reinsch-Pierce Auditorium, School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology on October 20, 2023.

Natural structures and shape grammars

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the Center for Biologically Inspired Design, Clough 129, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 17, 2023

Shape Machine at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar Series

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar Series, Hodges Room, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology. September 7, 2023

Shape Machine @ Digital Futures, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

Thanos Economou will give an invited online talk at the DigitalFUTURES, Online Platform for Architectural Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, China, on June 30, 2023

Shape Machine @ University of Lisbon

Thanos Economou will give an invited online talk at Universidade Lusófona, Centro Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal on June 6, 2023

Honor Roll

Thanos Economou received a Summer 2023 CIOS Honor Roll, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2023

Implementation of shape embedding in 2D CAD systems

Kurt Hong and Thanos Economou published the paper “Implementation of shape embedding in 2D CAD systems” in Automation in Construction, Volume 146, pp. 1–15, 104640, ISSN 0926–5805 in February 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104640

Back to the Drawing Board

Thanos Economou and Kurt Hong published the paper “Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine” in Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’22. DCC 2022. Springer, Cham. pp. 549–567 in January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20418-0_33

2022

Studio review at Kennesaw University

Thanos Economou will review the Senior Studio, Inst. Sandra Iskander, School of Architecture, Kennesaw University, Nov. 30, 2022

Shape-based search (⌘-F) and replace (⌘-R) in CAD/CAM

Thanos Economou will give an invited talk at the National Technical University of Athens, on October 18, 2022.

Generative workplace

Victor Okhoya, Marcelo Bernal, Thanos Economou, Nirvik Saha, Kurt Hong, and John Haymaker published the paper “Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice” in International Journal of Architectural Computing. 20(3): 645–672 in September 2022. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771221120580

Savannah Innovation and Technology Park

Thanos Economou received a $15K grant by the Savannah Harbor Partners (GTF492000016) for his Design and Research Studio on the design of the Savannah Innovation and Technology Park, on August 2022.

DCC22

Thanos Economou will give a conference presentation of the paper “Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine” co-authored with Kurt Hong at the Design Computing and Cognition’22 (DCC 2022), Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland, on July 4, 2022.

Shapes of Imagination

Thanos Economou contributed an endorsement on George Stiny’s new book Shapes of Imagination: Calculating in Coleridge’s Magical Realm, MIT Press, April 2022

US Patent Application

Thanos Economou and Kurt Hong filed the US Patent Application 17/558,799 “Shape Systems and Methods” on April 28, 2022.

Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters @Springer

Kurt Hong and Thanos Economou published the paper “Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters”. In Design Computing and Cognition’20, Gero, J.S. (eds) Springer, February 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90625-2_11

What shape grammars do that CAD should

Kurt Hong and Thanos Economou published the paper “What shape grammars do that CAD should: The 14 cases of shape embedding” in Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 36, E4. pp. 1–20 in February 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060421000263

ARCC Best Dissertation Award

Kurt Hong received the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) Dissertation Award for his PhD “Shape Machine: Shape Embedding and Rewriting in Visual Design” in January 2022.

2021

Is Scripting Shaping?

Thanos Economou is invited to participate at the SIGRADI Panel Discussion “Is Scripting Shaping?” at Klaus 1116, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, November 11, 2021.

Shape Machine and Georgia Research Alliance

Thanos Economou received a grant from Georgia Research Alliance (AWD-002591, GR00011262, $50,000) to work on the MVP for Shape Machine, October 2021

Thematic Collection: Design Computing and Cognition 2020

Pr. Economou & Pr. Yan Jin @ aerospace-USC announced the AIEDAM Special Issue, Volume 35, Number 4 in September 2021

Pope Faculty Fellowship

Thanos Economou received the Jim Pope Faculty Fellows Program grant ($15K) to pursue evidence-based entrepreneurship on Shape Machine, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 2021.

Rethinking Origami

Ying Yu, Kurt Hong, Thanos Economou, and Glaucio Paulino published the paper “Rethinking Origami: On the Generation of Origami Patterns in Shape Machine”, in the journal Computer-Aided Design, ISSN: 0010–4485, Vol: 137, 103029 in August 2021.

PhD thesis defense

Kurt Hong defended his PhD thesis with title “Shape Machine: Shape Embedding and Rewriting in Visual Design”, at the School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology. Kurt currently holds a Tenure-track Assistant Professor appointment at the School of Architecture, Kansas University.

Durand Redrawn

Thanos Economou will present the paper “Durand Redrawn: A Formal Description of Durand’s ‘Précis of the Lectures on Architecture’” at NEXUS 20/21: Relationships Between Architecture and Mathematics, Kaiserslautern, Germany in July 2021.

COD Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award

Thanos Economou received the Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award in the College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology in April 2021.

SOA PhD thesis award

Heather Ligler received the SOA best dissertation award for her PhD “The Portman Variations: A Critical Approach to Entelechy I Mediated By Shape Machine” at the School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology in April 2021.

Shape Machine @ DBL

Thanos Economou will give the invited online talk having Robert Anderson as respondent at the DBL Workshop at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, April 24, 2021.

Shape Machine @ Perkins and Will Computational Design eXchange

Thanos Economou will give the invited online talk “Shape Machine by the Shape Computation Lab” organized by Luc Deckinga at Perkins and Will Computational Design eXchange on March 24, 2021.

2020

Shape Machine @ Create X

SCL received a $10K grant (DE00019155) for the Shape Machine Startup Launch @ Create-X, May 2021

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 Ninth 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

PhD thesis defense

Heather Ligler defended her PhD thesis with title “The Portman Variations: A Critical Approach to Entelechy I Mediated By Shape Machine”, at the School of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology in December 2020. Heather accepted a visiting Assistant Professor appointment at the School of Architecture, Penn State University.

Shape Machine: A Primer in Visual Composition

Thanos Economou, Kurt Hong, Heather Ligler, and James Park published the book chapter Shape Machine: A Primer in Visual Composition in the book A New Perspective of Cultural DNA, edited by J.-H. Lee in KAIST Research Series, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, pp. 65–92 on 24 September 2020 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-15-7707-9_6

2019

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, Pittsburgh, December 5, 2019

Shape Machine Workshop @ CMU

Kurt Hong will give a workshop on Shape Machine at the School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, 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

2018

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

2017

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

2016

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

2015

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

2014

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

2013

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

2012

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

2011

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

2010

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