George Stiny

George Stiny is an American design and computation theorist. He co-created the concept of shape grammars.

Stiny was educated at MIT and UCLA. He has taught at the University of Sydney, the Royal College of Art (London), and the Open University. He was faculty at UCLA for fifteen years before joining the MIT Department of Architecture in 1996.

Published works

• Stiny, G. & Gips, J. (1972). Shape grammars and the generative specification of painting and sculpture. In Information Processing 71, pp. 1460–1465. North-Holland Publishing Company. link to article
• Stiny, G. (1978). Algorithmic Aesthetics. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-03467-9
• Stiny, G. (1980). Introduction to shape and shape grammars. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 7(3), 343-351.
• Stiny, G. (2006). Shape: Talking about Seeing and Doing. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. link to book
• The grammar of paradise: on the generation of Mughul gardens
• The Algebras of Design

External links

• George Stiny home page at MIT Architecture
• Full text of Algorithmic Aesthetics book
• Interview with Stiny, at MIT Libraries