publications


journals +
book chapters 

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. 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. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00779-8


Ligler H. 2024.“The Grammar of Anne Tyng’s Simpler Space Structures.” Nexus Network Journal. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00004-024-00775-y


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. 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, no. 3: 722. 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. 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. 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, pp. 65-92.


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, no. 4 : pp. 623-48. doi: 0265813516676489.




conference proceedings [refereed]

Hong T-C K and Ligler H. 2024. “The Isovist Grammar: Automating Isovists and Isovist Fields with Visual Rules.” SIGraDi 2024 “Biodigital_Intelligent_Systems”


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.” Proceedings of the 41st eCAADe Conference, Volume 2, pp. 399-408.


Imam C and Ligler H. 2023. “3D Voxel Grammar of Mangalabas (Goodwill House).” Proceedings of the 41st eCAADe Conference, Volume 2, pp. 441-450.


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.” Proceedings of the 41st eCAADe Conference, Volume 2, pp. 691-700.


Ligler H. 2023. “Visualizing Anne Tyng’s Transformations of the Octetruss.” Nexus Network Journal [special issue, 2023 Nexus Conference]. 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 [special issue, 2023 Nexus Conference]. 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.” SIGraDi 2022 “Critical Appropriations.”


Paulino DMS, Knapp C, Ligler H and Napolitano R. 2022. “The Reviver Grammar: Transforming the Historic Center of Sao Luis through Social Housing.” SIGraDi 2022 “Critical Appropriations.”


Nowobilski M and Ligler H. 2021. “The Market Square Grammar: Reconstructing the Facades of Warsaw’s Old Town.” Proceedings of the 39th eCAADe Conference, Volume 2, pp. 283-292.


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,” Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XLVI-M-1-2021, 515–521, https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLVI-M-1-2021-515-2021.


Economou A, Hong K, Ligler H and Park J. 2019. “Shape Machine: A Primer in Visual Composition.” Cultural DNA: Computational Studies on Cultural Variation and Heredity. KAIST, South Korea, pp. 79-102.


Ligler H and Economou A. 2019. “From Drawing Shapes to Scripting Shapes: Architectural Theory Mediated by Shape Machine.” SimAUD 2019 Conference Proceedings, pp. 278-286.


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., pp. 401-420. 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.” Proceedings of the 33rd eCAADe Conference, Martens B.,Wurzer G., Grasl T., Lorenz W.E., and Schaffranek, R (eds),
Volume 1, pp. 445-452.


Ligler H and Economou A. 2015. “Lost in Translation: Towards an Automated Description of John Portman’s Domestic Architecture.” Blucher Design Proceedings, 2(3), pp. 657-661.