Shape

Index
A þ E ¼ AE, 93
ababaababa, 25–28, 391n2, 398–399n9, 405–
406n20
Abbatt building bricks, 304
ABC’s, 41
abduction, 389
abstract symbol systems, 274, 308
academicism, 354
accountability, 57–58, 132, 381
Ackerman, J. S., 388, 405n12
addition: shapes versus symbols, 33–35
aesthetic measure, 10–11, 19, 39, 50, 364, 389,
394n14
aesthetics, 50, 157, 341, 354, 368, 394n15,
404–405n3
Alberti, L. B., 214, 215, 251, 308, 391–392n2,
403n41
Alexander, C., 65, 156, 392n3, 392–393n6,
397n9, 401n24
Alexandra, 42–44, 50
algebra of shapes
composite, 224–225, 288–291
U ij , 180–196
V ij , 217–219
W ij , 219–224
algebraic ambiguity, 400n18
algebraic operations
complement, 205–206
difference, 188
product, 192
sum, 185
symmetric difference, 192
transformations, 194–195
algorithm for
difference, 191–192, 276
maximal lines, 186–188, 276
parts, 184, 276
rule application, 276
symmetry, 262
sum, 186–188, 276
transformations, 260–265, 276
Alice, 50
ambiguity, 2, 47, 65, 161–163, and anywhere
else you look
ambiguity ¼ noise, 161, 305
analogy for
basic elements and regions, 211
designs and sentences, 18
discursive and presentational forms of
symbolism, 18
intellectual and physical analysis, 125
mappings of shapes and sets, 285
shape grammar and generative grammar,
18
shapes and sentences, 21
tðAÞ and A, 233
tðAÞ and sagacity, 233
tðAÞ a C and sagacity, 233
visual expression and verbal expression, 7
visual reasoning and visual calculating, 62
x and member, 285
analysis, 6, 21–30, 47, 144, 163
analysis and rules, 84–88, 106–112, 282–
301
anatomical and morphological method, 125
animation, 4
architects, 159, 341–342, 354, 392n3, 404n3
architecture, 54, 58, 134, 214, 275, 340–341,
341–168, 389, 392n3, 392–393n6
Arensberg, W., 403–404n1