D for Design: Desktop Shape Grammars
Shape grammars, in the early 90's, were in the forefront of interest as a way of applying Artificial Intelligence to Architectural Composition.
Newer Developments
Research has advanced since to the more complex techniques of genetic algorithms, on which a most circumspect paper has been published by Dr Lefteris Virirakis ("GENETICA: A Computer Language That Supports General Formal Expression With Evolving Data Structures" in IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, volume 7, issue 5, October 2003, pp 456-81, see also the GENETICA site).
This
paper, under the guidance of Professor Alan Bridges, was
successfully submitted as an MSc thesis during the course
Computer Aided Building Design in the ABACUS
(Architecture and Building Aids Computer Unit, Strathclyde)
research unit of the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
Last modified: 2008-12-05
