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	DATE	LECTURE	READING MATERIAL	ASSIGNMENT
	WEEK 1  Jan 12  Jan 16	About the course  Life as a Grammarist	George Stiny • Two exercises in formal composition Terry Knight and George Stiny • Classical and non-classical computation
		Introduction to Grammars  Introduction to Shape Grammars
	WEEK 2  Jan 19  Jan 23	More on Shape Grammars  Parametric Grammars  Ice-Ray and Hepplewhite Grammars	George Stiny • Ice-ray: a note on the generation of Chinese Lattice Windows Terry Knight • The generation of Hepplewhite style chair-back designs
		Palladian Grammar	George Stiny and Bill Mitchell • The Palladian Grammar	Assignment 1  due 2.2.09
	WEEK 3  Jan 26  Jan 30	Queen Anne Houses  Bungalows of Buffalo	Ulrich Flemming • More than the sum of parts: the grammar of Queen Anne houses Fred Downing and Ulrich Flemming • The bungalows of Buffalo
		Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Houses	Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg • The language of the prairie: FLW's priarie houses	Assignment 2  due 2.16.09
	WEEK 4  Feb 2  Feb 6	Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House:  example grammatical derivations  Terragni's Casa Guiliani Frigeria	Hank Koning and Julie Eizenberg • op cit Ulrich Flemming • The secret of Casa Guiliani Frigeria
		Kindergarten Grammars	George Stiny • Kindergarten Grammars: designing with Froebel's gifts
	WEEK 5  Feb 9  Feb 13	Transformations of Grammars	Terry Knight • Languages of design: from known to new
		NO CLASS
	WEEK 6  Feb 16  Feb 20	Transformations of Grammars  Introduction to Weighted  and Color Grammars	Terry Knight • Transformation of languages of design: part 2 • Transformation of languages of design: part 3	Assignment 3  due 3.02.09  Answers  to  assignment 1
		More on Weighted and Color  Grammars	George Stiny • Weights
	WEEK 7  Feb 23  Feb 27	Traditional Taiwanese Houses:  Parts 1 and  2	Shang-chia Chiou and Ramesh Krishnamurti • The grammatical basis of chinese traditional architecture • The fortunate dimensions of Taiwanese traditonal architecture • The grammar of Taiwanese traditonal vernacular dwellings • Example Taiwanese traditional houses
		The AutoPilot Project  Baltimore Rowhouses		Assignment 4  due 3.08.09
	WEEK 8  Mar 2  Mar 6	Tomas Trescak's shape grammar   interpreter	Tomas' website
		NO CLASS
	WEEK 9  Mar 9  Mar 13	MID SEMESTER BREAK
	WEEK 10  Mar 16  Mar 20	Implementing shape grammars - an overview part I
		Discussion of the course project
	WEEK 11  Mar 23  Mar 27	Implementing shape grammars - an overview part I		Course Project  Topic  due 3.27.09
		Implementing shape grammars in U1
	WEEK 12  Mar 30  Apr 3	Implementing shape grammars in Un
	WEEK 13  Apr 6  Apr 10	Emergence, continuity and ambiguity	Junsik Moon • Shape Grammar for Mie's van der Rohe's High-rise Apartment Jose Duarte • Unveiling the Structure of the Marrakech Medina Michael Pugliese and Jon Cagan • Capturting a Rebel: modeling the Harley-Davidson brand through a motorcycle shape grammar Jay P McCormack, Jon Cagan and Craig Volker • Capturing the essence of a product's brand through a shape grammar representation Jay P McCormack, Jon Cagan and Craig Volker • Speaking the Buick language: capturing, understanding and exploring brand identity with shape grammars Jay P McCormack, Jon Cagan and Craig Volker • Capturing the essence of a product's brand through a shape grammar representation Jay P McCormack and Jon Cagan • Designing inner hood panels through a shape grammar based framework Kristina Shea and Jon Cagan • Languages and semantics of grammatical discrete structures
	WEEK 14  Apr 13  Apr 17	NO CLASS
		SPRING CARNIVAL - NO CLASS
	WEEK 15  Apr 20  Apr 24	NO CLASS
	WEEK 16  Apr 27  May 1
		LAST CLASS - COURSE PROJECT DUE