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a new look on flexible urban design

This page is dedicated to the research of José Nuno Beirão on Urban Grammars.

In this page you will find links to published and forthcoming papers, as well as links to related architectural activities and online publications. This page also contains additional data on some of the work.

Since 2007, José Beirão is developing his PhD - A generative model for Urban Design - which is integrated in the City Induction research project.

The City Induction research project is supported by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Portugal, hosted by ICIST at the Technical University of Lisbon (PTDC/AUR/64384/2006) and coordinated by José Pinto Duarte. Gil, Beirão and Montenegro are responsible for the evaluation, generation and formulation module, respectively. J.N. Beirão is funded by FCT with grant SFRH/BD/39034/2007.

Urban Design with Patterns and Shape Rules
Forthcoming - presented at the 2nd International New Town Seminar in Almere, October, 2007 - pdf

Gramáticas Urbanas - por uma Metodologia de Desenho Urbano Flexível (Tese de mestrado)
Urban Grammars - Towards Flexible Urban Design (Master Thesis) - portuguese text - pdf - (25Mb download)

Urban Grammars - eCAADe 2005

La Sagrera, urban design proposal - interview published in Arquitectura e Vida

Structuring a Generative Model for Urban Design: Linking GIS to Shape Grammars - eCAADe 2008

Powerpoint presentation - Viseu, April, 27th, 2009