This paper concerns the shape theory for triads of spaces which was introduced by the author. More precisely, in the first part, the shape dimension for triads of spaces (X; X0,X1) is introduced, and its upper and lower bounds are given in terms of the shape dimensions of X0, X1, X0 ∩ X1 and X. In the second part, a Whitehead type theorem for triads of spaces and a Mayer-Vietoris type theorem c...