Shape Computation

Sotirios Kotsopoulos specializes in shape computation, exploring its impact on design theory and practice. With a Ph.D. from MIT, he focuses on algorithmic aesthetics, shape grammars, and computational design. He has developed innovative projects such as the Connected Sustainable Home and contributed to urban study experiments like the Cityscope. As an educator at the National Technical University of Athens and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he promotes interdisciplinary research in architecture and design.

• Scutum Fidei.- Shape Grammars and the Architect.- The Geometrical Art of Lionel March.- Grids: Schemas, Rules and Cases.- Reflections on Interpreting Shape Grammars.- How is that? Computing the Temporality of Drawing.- Computing with Material Shapes: The Case of Triaxial Basket Weaving.- [Un]making with.- Preserving Brand Identity in Engineering Design.- The Science of Shape Grammar-Based Product Design.- Mathematics of Shape Rules.- Seeing and Drawing Shapes.- Flows: Composite Shape Rules.- Arrangements Containing Shapes: Mathematical Features and Use.- Shape Computation Research at the University of Sydney.- Shape Machine: From Software to Practice.- Design Space Exploration in the Shape Machine Interface.- From Lines to Curves.- Rewriting Shape Rules: Developing Implemented Shape Grammars to See Anew.- Automating the Archaeological Reconstruction of Classical Greek and Roman Architecture.- A Generative Grammar for the Design of Adaptive Intelligent Virtual Worlds.- What does Shape Grammar Implementation tell us about Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Design?.- The Shape of Generative AI.- Computing Chinese Architecture.- Using Shape Grammar as an Analytical Tool for Shelters in Protracted Refugee Camps: The Zaatari Camp Grammar.- Designing with Visual Calculation is Child's Play.- EthnoComputation: An Inductive-Deductive Shape Grammar on Toraja Glyph.