George Stiny

George Stiny is an American design and computation theorist. He co-created the concept of shape grammars with James Gips.

Stiny was educated at MIT and UCLA. He has taught at the University of Sydney, the Royal College of Art (London), and the Open University. He was on the faculty at UCLA for fifteen years before joining the MIT Department of Architecture in 1996. He currently is a Professor in the Computation Group of the Department of Architecture at MIT.