News
2024
Economou @ University of HawaiiThanos Economou will give the talk “Shape Machine: Shape-based search (⌘-F) and shape-based replace in CAD” at the School of Architecture, University of Hawaii’i at Manoa, on Monday, November 18, 2024.
New published paper: Redefining Line Maximization in Shape Machine - First Online 29 September 2024
Newton, R., Economou, A. (2024). Redefining Line Maximization. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’24. DCC 2024. Springer, Cham. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-71918-9_16
New published paper: Dougong Revisited in Shape Machine- First Online 29 September 2024
Shi, Y., Economou, A. (2024). 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. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-71918-9_15
Economou @ AIA+A Salon, AIA NY Center for Architecture, New York City - 13 September 2024
Thanos Economou is invited to participate at the AIA+A Salon organized by the AIANY Future of Practice Committee and the American Institute of Architecture’s New York City chapter to present the current state-of-the-art of Shape Machine, a vector-based, shape search and rewrite technology developed at the Shape Computation Lab at Georgia Tech. The salon brought together world leading experts from academia, industry and practice to develop position pieces that collectively serve as a defining statement for the future of architecture in the AI era.
ARCH 6508/ CS 6492 / ID 6508 Shape Grammars @ Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou will teach the Shape Grammars course during Fall 2024. The course has UG/GR numbers and will be held on M/W 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm at the Success Center 152, GT campus.
Shape Machine 1.0.8 release
A new release of Shape Machine is available at the Georgia Tech ShapePoint site featuring marquee lasso selection, carrier line and arcs intersection points registration, and a much-improved runtime calculation for shape embeddings.
Shape meets Euclid @ AiC
Economou, A., TK Hong, Russell Newton. (2024). “Shape meets Euclid: Integrating shape computation with ruler and compass procedures”, Automation in Construction, Volume 165, 2024, 105562, ISSN 0926-5805, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2024.105562. First Online: 28 June 2024.
Best Design Computation Paper Award @ DCC'24
Russell Newton received best design computation paper for his presentation “Redefining Line Maximization in Shape Machine at the DCC'24 Conference, July 9, 2024.
Redefining Line Maximization in Shape Machine @ DCC'24
Russell Newton will present the paper “Redefining Line Maximization in Shape Machine”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the DCC'24 Conference, July 9, 2024.
Dougong revisited in Shape Machine @ DCC'24
Yichao Shi will present the paper “Dougong revisited: a parametric specification of Chinese bracket design in Shape Machine”, co-authored with Thanos Economou, at the DCC'24 Conference, July 9, 2024.
Shape Grammars Workshop @ DCC'24
Thanos Economou and Iestyn Jowers will chair the Workshop “New Directions in Shape Grammars” at the Design Computing and Cognition 2024, at the Concordia University., Montréal, Canada on Sunday July 7, 2024.
SCL @ Undergraduate Research Fair
Russell Newton, Yichao Shi and Violet Cerbone will present the poster presentation “Shape Computation Lab Works” at the Spring 2024 Undergraduate Research Fair, Georgia Tech, April 18, 2024.
Shape Machine @ AI for Lifetime Learning Symposium
Russell Newton, Yichao Shi and Violet Cerbone will present the poster presentation “Shape Machine: Shape Machine: Programming with Shapes” at the AI for Lifetime Learning Symposium, GLC Amphitheater 222, Georgia Tech, April 4, 2024.
Shape Machine at IPaT Research Showcase/Interactivity Demo
Russell Newton, Yichao Shi and Violet Cerbone will showcase recent projects in Shape Machine at the IPaT Research Showcase/Interactivity demo, Georgia Tech, February 6, 2024.
ARCH 8803/ CS 8803 / ID 8803 Shape Machine Applications @ Georgia Tech
Thanos Economou will teach the Shape Machine Application course during Spring 2024. The course has UG/GR numbers and will be held on T/H 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm at ARCH East 207, GT campus.
2023CIOS Honor Roll AwardThanos Economou received a Summer 2023 CIOS Honor Roll distinction for his teaching at the Summer 23 Architectonics Abroad Program, Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Georgia Institute of Technology, December 2023. PhD Dissertation @ SCL James Park completed his dissertation “The Dirksen Variations: A Formal Specification of Mies Van Der Rohe’s Judicial Architecture, December 2023. Shape Machine @ Georgia Research Alliance Ventures PI A Economou. Shape Machine Phase 1B, Agency: Georgia Research Alliance. Project Number AWD-002591, # GR00011262 US Patent Application 17/558,799: “Shape Systems and Methods” Filed: December 22, 2021. GTRC Reference No.: 8054 Publication No. US 2022/0129598 Publication date: April 28, 2022 Shape Machine @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece Thanos Economou will give a talk “Shape Machine: From software to practice” at the School of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens, November 6, 2023 Shape Machine @ CASE, Brooklyn, NY Thanos Economou will give an invited talk “Shape Machine: From software to practice”, Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Brooklyn, NY. October 23, 2023 Shape Machine @GVU, GT Thanos Economou will give an invited talk “Shape Machine: From software to practice”, GVU Brown bug Seminar Series, Hodges Room, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology. September 7, 2023 On-line talk @ DigitalFUTURES, Tongi University, Sanghai, China Thanos Economou will give an online invited talk “Where do shape rules come from?” at the DigitalFUTURES Online Platform for Architectural Education, Tongi University, Sanghai, China, June 30, 2023 On-line talk @ Computar, University of Lisbon, Portugal Thanos Economou will give an online invited talk “Shape Machine: Shape-based search (⌘-F) and shape-based replace (⌘-R) in CAD/CAM” at the Computar, Forma 23, Universidade Lusófona, Centro Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal, June 5, 2023 Back to the Drawing Board @ DCC22 Economou, A., Hong, TC.K. (2023). Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’22. DCC 2022. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-20418-0_33, January 5, 2023. 2022Implementation of shape embedding in 2D CAD systems @ AiCHong, TC.K., Economou, A. (2023) Implementation of shape embedding in 2D CAD systems, Automation in Construction, Volume 146, pp. 1-15, 104640, ISSN 0926-5805, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2022.104640. December 2022. Shape Machine @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece Thanos Economou will give an invited talk “Shape Machine: Shape-based search (⌘-F) and shape-based replace (⌘-R) in CAD/CAM” at the National Technical University of Athens, October 18, 2022. Shape Machine Workshop @ National Technical University of Athens, Greece Yeon Tae Chung will give a Shape Machine/ DrawScript workshop at the School of Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens, October 18, 2022. Back to the Drawing Board @ DCC'22 Thanos Economou will present the paper “Back to the Drawing Board: Shape Calculations in Shape Machine” co-authored with Kurt Hong at the Design Computing and Cognition’22 Conference at the Strathclyde University, Glasgow, July 5, 2022. From Shape Machine to Future Shape Grammar Research @ DCC'22 Thanos Economou and Iestyn Jowers will chair the Workshop “From Shape Machine to Future Shape Grammar Research” at the Design Computing and Cognition ‘22 Conference at the University of Strathclyde, Sunday July 3, 2022. Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters @ DCC’20 Hong, TC.K., Economou, A. (2022). Five Criteria for Shape Grammar Interpreters. In: Gero, J.S. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition’20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90625-2_11 What shape grammars do that CAD should @ AIEDAM Hong, TC.K., Economou, A. What shape grammars do that CAD should: The 14 cases of shape embedding. Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 36, E4. pp. 1-20, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0890060421000263 Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice @ IJAC Okhoya, V.W., Bernal, M., Economou, A,, Saha, N., Hong, Tc.K., Haymaker, J. Generative workplace and space planning in architectural practice. International Journal of Architectural Computing. 20(3): 645-672. 2022. doi:10.1177/14780771221120580 2021 |
| PhD Dissertation @ SCL Kurt Hong completed his dissertation “Shape Machine: Shape Embedding and Rewriting in Visual Design”, December 2021. Jim Pope Faculty Award Thanos Economou received the Jim Pope Faculty Award for his work on the Shape Machine Entrepreneurial front, Create-X, Georgia Institute of Technology, September 2021. Rethinking Origami in Shape Machine @ CAD Yu Y., Hong TK., Economou A., Paulino G (2021) Rethinking Origami: On the Generation of Origami Patterns in Shape Machine, Computer-Aided Design, ISSN: 0010-4485, Vol: 137. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cad.2021.103029 Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award Thanos Economou received the Outstanding Research and Scholarship Award for his contribution in research in the College of Design, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2021. 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 |
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Shape Machine: A Primer for Visual Computation @ Cultural DNA Economou, A., Hong, TCK., Ligler, H., Park, J. (2021). Shape Machine: A Primer for Visual Computation. In: Lee, JH. (eds) A New Perspective of Cultural DNA. KAIST Research Series. Springer, Singapore pp. 65-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7707-9_6. First Online: 24 September 2020. PhD Dissertation @ SCL Heather Ligler completed her dissertation “The Portman Variations: A Critical Approach to Entelechy I Mediated By Shape Machine”, December 2020. 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 |
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, 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 |
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 |