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Twenty-First
Century Grammars A view of the roles of grammar and grammars in design computing is presented, concentrating on architecture, landscape architecture and urban design and relationships between the ways that design activity is characterised and associated views of design computing. The fundamental distinction between systems that restrict their ambit to the syntax of designs (form, space, geometry, etc), and those that attempt to represent meaning (taking 'meaning' in a wide sense including interpretations of design function and performance), is discussed. From a current perspective, the paper will briefly but dangerously conjecture about design and grammar(s) in the early 21st century. Antony Radford, former Associate Professor at the Key Centre of Design Computing, is Professor of Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Adelaide, Australia. He sandwiched research for a Doctorate at The University of Sydney between practising as an architect in Scotland and England, returning to Sydney as a staff member in the Design Computing Unit. In the last ten years in Adelaide he has combined being Head or Deputy Head with teaching architectural and urban design in the integrated project-based context that characterises the School. Current research focuses are contemporary Australian lightweight houses and urban development control, both informed by a grammatical view of design. |
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