Shape Grammar- Zvi Hecker

• Shape Grammar is a System which generates Geometric Shapes.

• Shape Grammar can also be called Procedural Modelling.
• Foundation of Shape Grammar is laid by George Stiny and James Gips.
• Repetitive Geometries or Repetitive Elements found in Buildings, Games and Films.
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Shape Grammar in Urban Context
 Zvi Hecker
• Process Guides the System.
• Generation of new forms from old forms.
• Less preconceived Concepts.
• Use of Bold Forms.
• Expression of inner feelings (intuitive process).
An ‘artist whose profession is architecture’, captures buildings’ dynamic in
space, emphasising the importance of hand drawings in a creative process

‘Hand drawings help to channel the vague ponderings of the mind into
visual images of a germinating concept. It is then up to the eyes to trace and
decode its meaning,’ says Zvi Hecker

His painterly sketches are three dimensional, capturing the building’s

dynamic in space, and are often expressive − more about an impression than
about the completeness of form
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