Overview
- A collection of 8 invited papers presented at the conference “Nexus 2010: Relationships in Architecture and Mathematics” examine “Shape and Shape Grammar”
- Guest editor Lionel March introduces each paper, gives a short history of 40 years of shape grammar and provides a discussion of the topic as a whole
- Includes 4 other full-length research papers, one conference report, and one book review
- Each research paper includes a bibliography for further reading
- The NNJ is a peer-reviewed, scholarly journal for interdisciplinary studies between the architecture and mathematics, published since 1999
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Nexus Network Journal (NNJ, volume 13,1)
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About this book
The Spring 2011 (vol. 13 no. 1) issue of the Nexus Network Journal features eight papers that resulted from the 2010 Nexus conference section on Shape and Shape Grammars. Guest editor Lionel March provides an introduction for the entire group. The papers were selected to spread themes as widely and representatively as possible. George Stiny provides a keynote paper with theoretical insights, while other papers range from pedagogical applications in the architectural studio to shape language and style in classical Chinese architecture; from shape grammars and descriptions used to ‘decode Alberti’, to their use as an aid to the rehabilitation of housing stock in Lisbon; from the creation of a design system involving a parametric shape grammar with descriptions to generate urban block layouts within a defined spatial region, to a novel example of a kinetic shape grammar simulating human body movements. Among the authors are George Stiny, Mine Özkar, Andrew Li, José Duarte, Rudi Stouffs,Mario Krüger, Filipe Coutinho, José Beirão Alexandra Paio, Benamy Turkienicz, Sara Eloy, Maria da Piedade Ferriera, Duarte Cabral de Mello, and others.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Nexus Network Journal 13,1
Book Subtitle: Architecture and Mathematics
Editors: Kim Williams
Series Title: Nexus Network Journal
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Copyright Information: Springer Basel 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-0159-1Published: 25 June 2011
Series ISSN: 1590-5896
Series E-ISSN: 1522-4600
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IV, 257