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R.M.F.A. Stouffs

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Description grammars

Precedents revisited

A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper revisits applications of description grammars f ...

Description grammars

A general notation

A description grammar, in conjunction with a shape grammar, serves to generate verbal descriptions of designs, next to the spatial descriptions. These verbal descriptions can also assist in guiding the generative process. This paper presents a general notation for descriptions an ...
Shape grammars come in a variety of forms. Algebras of shapes have been defined for spatial elements of different kinds, as well as for shapes augmented with varying attributes, allowing for grammar forms to be expressed in terms of a direct product of basic algebras. This algebr ...
We revisit two case studies that adopt a shape grammar to relate different architectural styles. Both adopt a description scheme, augmenting the shape grammar, as the main vehicle for relating different styles, however, they both present the description rules only conceptually. F ...
This paper presents a description grammar approach in the context of the generation of historical architectural typologies. The specific architectural
context is classical period Ottoman mosques of the architect Sinan.@en