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Vermaas, P. & Eloy, S. (2017). Grammar and quality: Assessing the design quality of grammar-system generated architecture. In Proceedings of the SPT 2017: The grammar of things. (pp. 68-69). Darmstadt: Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT).

P. E. Vermaas and S. E. Rodrigues,  "Grammar and quality: Assessing the design quality of grammar-system generated architecture", in Proc. of the SPT 2017: The grammar of things, Darmstadt, Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), 2017, pp. 68-69

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AU  - Vermaas, P.
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AB  - In architectural research the SPT 2017 challenge of understanding things by their grammar has been
taken up. Grammar systems have, for instance, been developed for analysing the design principles of
types of architectural artefacts as Palladio villas and Queen Anne houses. The understanding these
analytic grammars give of the artificial world may already be the topic of philosophical research. This
paper focuses on a further challenge that grammars may bring to philosophy and that is their use for
designing new architecture. This further use of grammars may seem business as usual, since it is
merely the transition from descriptive tools to prescriptive ones. Within architecture it however
raises fundamental questions. Are designs generated with grammar systems true architecture? Have
grammar-system designs the same quality as designs created by human architects? In this
contribution we take up the challenge of answering this last question. We present a research method
for assessing the quality of grammar-system generated designs, and give the outcomes of an
experiment done with it. This contribution may be taken as work on the broader methodological
challenge of validating design tools.
ER  -