Projects: previous and current

• NSF/MITWorkshop on Shape Computation: 25-26 April 1999
• UCLA White paper: TheWhite paper and related material created for the Symposium on Design and Computation at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Oxnard, California, the predecessor of the NSF/MIT Shape Computation Workshop.
• GEdit: A computer implementation of a shape grammar system performing computations with 2-d lines and labeled points.
• Malagueira A website by Jose Pinto Duarte, a Ph.D. Candidate at MIT that uses a shape grammar to generate housing units. The project is entitled: "Malagueira Grammar -- towards a tool for customizing Alvaro Siza's mass houses at Malagueira." Alvaro de Melo Siza Vieira is a Portugese Architect.
• Color grammars: One design methodology for a housing program a website by Gabriela Celani, a Ph.D. candidate at MIT. The purpose of the website is to show architecture students an example of how color grammars can be used as a design methodology. A color grammar is an extension of a shape grammar that associates attributes (such as color, material, function, architectural features) with shapes
• .2-d shaper a web site by Miranda McGill, a S.M.Arch student at MIT. The Java Applet shows how a spatial relation between two identical rectangles can be changed into a shape grammar rule, by using a label to break the 4-fold symmetry of the rectangle. The interactive program allows the designer to change the location and orientation of the two rectangles, to change the location of the label in one rectangle, and to see the immediate effect of the change on the design. This Java Applet only runs on Windows machines. The plug-in is not yet available for the Linux and Macintosh operating systems. The Java source requires JAMA, a Java Matrix package.