The Critic as Artist: Oscar Wilde’s Prolegomena to Shape Grammars

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Stiny, George N.
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Abstract
Shape grammars include Wilde’s aesthetic (critical) method—I can calculate with shapes as in themselves they really are not. Embedding makes this possible with schemas and rules that are “superb in [their] changes and contradictions”.
Date issued
2016-01
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103155
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Architecture
Journal
Nexus Network Journal
Publisher
Springer Basel
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Stiny, George. “The Critic as Artist: Oscar Wilde’s Prolegomena to Shape Grammars.” Nexus Network Journal 17.3 (2015): 723–758.
Version: Author's final manuscript
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1590-5896
1522-4600
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