Abstract

This chapter reviews emerging Shape Grammar research, categorising it into three themes: design analysis and generation, automated design and generative algorithms, and algebraic Shape Grammars. The first theme consists of theoretical Shape Grammar approaches, two-dimensional architectural design, three-dimensional architectural design, urban design, and design in art and engineering. The second theme addresses four alternative perspectives to grammatical approaches based on design automation, procedural modelling, genetic algorithms, and other algorithmic generation and evaluation methods. The last theme examines research using algebraic shape descriptions and operations. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a critical summary of recent trends in Shape Grammar research and an overview of the relationship between grammatical and generative systems in architecture.

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