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 DATE  LECTURE  READING MATERIAL  ASSIGNMENT
 WEEK 1
  Jan 10
 Jan 12		  About the course
 Life as a Grammarist
  •  Arabic Calligraphy
    		•  George Stiny • Two exercises in formal composition
    Terry Knight & George Stiny • Classical and non-classical computation
    Hoda Moustapha & Ramesh Krishnamurti • Arabic Calligraphy: A Computational Exploration
    Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz & Aristid Lindenmayer • Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, 2004
    (see me for copy)
     Introduction to Grammars
     Introduction to Shape Grammars
  •  L-systems-A form of String Grammars
    		•
     WEEK 2
      Jan 17
     Jan 19    		  On the readings for week 1
  •  Game of Life
  •  Genetic Algorithm
    		•
     Introduction to Parametric Grammars
     Ice-Ray and Hepplewhite Grammars    		 George Stiny • Introduction to Shape and Shape Grammars
    George Stiny • Ice-ray: a note on the generation of Chinese Lattice Windows
    Terry Knight • The generation of Hepplewhite style chair-back designs    		  Assignment 1
     due week 4
     WEEK 3
      Jan 24
     Jan 26    		  Palladian Grammar George Stiny & Bill Mitchell • The Palladian Grammar
     Bungalows of Buffalo
    		 F Downing & Ulrich Flemming • The bungalows of Buffalo
     WEEK 4
      Jan 31
     Feb 02    		  Queen Anne Houses
    		 Ulrich Flemming • More than the sum of parts: the grammar of Queen Anne houses
    Ulrich Flemming •A Pattern Book for Shadyside, 1986 (see me for copy)
     Casa Guiliani Frigeria
     Japanese Tea Rooms
     Mughal Gardens
    		 Ulrich Flemming • The Secret of the Casa Giuliani Frigerio
    Terry Knight • The forty-one steps
    George Stiny & William J Mitchell • The grammar of paradise
    Terry Knight • Mughal gardens revisited
    		  Assignment 2
     due week 6
     WEEK 5
      Feb 07
     Feb 09    		  Kindergarten Grammars George Stiny • Kindergarten Grammars: designing with Froebel's gifts
     S P O R T S   D A Y   —   N O   C L A S S