publications
peer-reviewed journals +
book chapters
Ligler H. 2025. “Constructing Architectural Theory: A Pedagogical Framework for Engaging the Logic of Precedents with Shape Rules,” International Journal of Architectural Computing. https://doi.org/10.1177/14780771251405442
Ligler H. 2025. “Rewriting Shape Rules: Developing Implemented Shape Grammars to See Anew,” S. Kotsopoulos (ed.), Shape Computation: Fifty Years, 1972-2022, Mathematics and the Built Environment 9, Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-81623-9_19
Ligler H. 2024.“The Grammar of Anne Tyng’s Simpler Space Structures.” Nexus Network Journal 26, 631-648. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00775-y
Paulino DMS, Ligler H, and Napolitano R. 2024. "On Determining Structural Wall Layout During the Adaptive Reuse Process of Historic Masonry Buildings" Journal of Building Engineering 95, 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.110178.
Walter N, Ligler H, and Gürsoy B. 2024.“The Truchet Tile Grammar: A Generative System for Versatile Tile and Pattern Design.” Nexus Network Journal 26, 649-666. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00779-8
Abu-Aridah D and Ligler H. 2024. "Shape Grammars and Self-Built Refugee Communities: The Transformation from Tent Shelter to Customized Structure in Irbid Camp." International Journal of Architectural Computing 22(1), 149-172. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/14780771241229854
Paulino DMS, Ligler H, and Napolitano R. 2023. "A Grammar-Based Approach for Generating Spatial Layout Solutions for the Adaptive Reuse of Sobrado Buildings" Buildings 13(3), 722, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13030722
Ligler H. 2022.“The Subsymmetry Analysis and Rule-Based Synthesis of John Portman’s Midnight Sun.” Nexus Network Journal 25, 409-437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-022-00644-6
Ligler H. 2021. “Reconfiguring Atrium Hotels: Generating Hybrid Designs with Visual Computations in Shape Machine.” Automation in Construction, Volume 132, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2021.103923
Economou A, Hong K, Ligler H, and Park J. 2020. “Shape Machine: A Primer in Visual Composition”, J.-H. Lee (ed.), A New Perspective of Cultural DNA, KAIST Research Series, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd, 65-92. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7707-9_6
Ligler H and Economou A. 2018. “Entelechy Revisited: On the Generative Specification of John Portman’s Architectural Language.” Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science 45(4), 623-648. https://doi.org/10.1177/0265813516676489
peer-reviewed conference papers + proceedings
Ligler H. 2025. “Shape Computation: A Foundation for AI-Embedded Architectural Education.” Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) Intersections Conference: AI Design Practices.
Ligler H. 2025. “The Architect as Developer and Urban Influencer.” Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 78th Annual International Conference.
Ligler H. 2025. “Kahn’s Two Houses: From Formal Analysis to Design Synthesis.” In: Marques, B., Ruivo, C., Leite Viana, D., Vieira Vaz, J. (eds) Formal Methods in Architecture. FMA 2024. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-02782-5_34
Hong T-C K and Ligler H. 2024. “The Isovist Grammar: Automating Isovists and Isovist Fields with Visual Rules.” In Herrera, Pablo C., Gómez, Paula, Estevez, Alberto T., Torreblanca-Díaz, David A. (eds.), Biodigital Intelligent Systems - Proceedings of the XXVIII Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2024), 225–236. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/sigradi2024_284.pdf
Govindarazan K, Ligler H, Abbas Y and Duarte JP. 2023. “Translating Christopher Alexander’s Patterns for Immersive Virtual Reality: A Rule-Based Approach to Behavior Testing in VR.” In Dokonal, W, Hirschberg, U, and Wurzer, G (eds), Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2023), 399–408. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ecaade2023_450.pdf
Imam C and Ligler H. 2023. “3D Voxel Grammar of Mangalabas (Goodwill House).” In Dokonal, W, Hirschberg, U, and Wurzer, G (eds.), Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2023), 441-450. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ecaade2023_221.pdf
Paulino DMS, Lewis KL, Napolitano R and Ligler H. 2023. “Automating the Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage: A Computational Framework for Reconfiguring Historic Masonry Buildings.” In Dokonal, W, Hirschberg, U, and Wurzer, G (eds.), Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st Conference on Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe 2023), 691- 700. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ecaade2023_397.pdf
Ligler H. 2023. “Visualizing Anne Tyng’s Transformations of the Octetruss.” Nexus Network Journal 25 (Supplement 1; Conference Proceedings), 71-78. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-023-00692-6
Walter N, Ligler H and Gürsoy B. 2023. “From Graphical Treatment of Combinatorics to Tiling Grammars.” Nexus Network Journal 25 (Supplement 1; Conference Proceedings), 321-332. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-023-00715-2
Abu-Aridah D and Ligler H. 2022. “From Shelter to Home: Transformation Grammar of Housing Units in Irbid Refugee Camp.” In Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF (eds.), Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), 311–322. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/sigradi2022_6.pdf
Paulino DMS, Knapp C, Ligler H and Napolitano R. 2022. “The Reviver Grammar: Transforming the Historic Center of Sao Luis through Social Housing.” In Herrera, PC, Dreifuss-Serrano, C, Gómez, P, Arris-Calderon, LF (eds.), Critical Appropriations - Proceedings of the XXVI Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2022), 347–358. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/sigradi2022_94.pdf
Nowobilski M and Ligler H. 2021. “The Market Square Grammar: Reconstructing the Facades of Warsaw’s Old Town.” In Stojakovic, V, and Tepavcevic, B (eds.), Towards a new, configurable architecture - Proceedings of the 39th eCAADe Conference, 283-292. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ecaade2021_068.pdf
Paulino DMS, Napolitano R, Ligler H, Bak K, Hogan SL and Moreno J T C. 2021. “A Grammar Based Methodology to Support the Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings: The Case Study of the Sobrado Building Type.” In The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, Volume XLVI-M-1-2021, 515–521. https://isprs-archives.copernicus.org/articles/XLVI-M-1-2021/515/2021/isprs-archives-XLVI-M-1-2021-515-2021.pdf
Ligler H and Economou A. 2019. “From Drawing Shapes to Scripting Shapes: Architectural Theory Mediated by Shape Machine.” In Proceedings of the Symposium on Simulation for Architecture and Urban Design (SIMAUD ’19), 279-286. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.5555/3390098.3390137
Ligler H and Economou A. 2019. “On John Portman’s Atria: Two Exercises in Hotel Composition.” In Gero J. (eds) Design Computing and Cognition ’18 (DCC 2018). Springer, Cham., 439-358. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05363-5_22
Ligler H and Economou A. 2015. “Entelechy I: Towards a Formal Specification of John Portman’s Domestic Architecture.” In Martens, B, Wurzer, G, Grasl T, Lorenz, WE and Schaffranek, R (eds.), Real Time - Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference, 445-452. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/ecaade2015_253.content.pdf
Ligler H and Economou A. 2015. “Lost in Translation: Towards an Automated Description of John Portman’s Domestic Architecture.” In Proceedings of the XIX Conference of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics (SIGraDi 2015), 657-661. https://papers.cumincad.org/data/works/att/sigradi2015_11.165.pdf