Relations between highly complex human and physical systems are of increasing concern today. Many of these are exemplified by problems associated with the failure of electrical power transmission systems which are not being solved within the current paradigm. Traditional mathematical forms are...

Phillip's repertory grid data on children's perception of designed objects had been collected during an experiment devised within Kelly's personal construct theory. Some of the data returned by the children cannot be processed by the techniques usually applied to repertory grids. The slicing...

Basic formal characteristics of Terragni's Casa Giuliani Frigerio are explained by means of a parametric shape grammar.

The following parametric shape grammar generates the compositional forms and specifies the function zones of Frank Lloyd Wright's prairie-style houses. The establishment of a fireplace is the key to the definition of the prairie-style house. Around this fireplace, functionally distinguished...

A framework for generating social networks is first presented and then illustrated by means of the attitudes towards urban systems analysis elicited from a group of experts in this field. The framework is based upon the notion of constructing networks from relations on two different sets of...

The plans of a small sample of houses built in the bungalow style have previously been characterized through a parametric shape grammar which provides a constructive description for each plan, that is, a set of operations by which the plan can be generated from some initial shape. The relation...

Traditional methods of describing the road transport system are criticised because they fail when used by planners and engineers. It is argued that a fundamental reason for this lies in road traffic theory being self-contradictory: the dynamic microtheory describing shock-wave behaviour in...

Comment and discussion on the method proposed for generating the graphs for enumerating architectural arrangements by Baybars and Eastman (1980).

An algorithmic structure for design is postulated.

This paper is intended to be a short and convenient reference for some of the standard definitions and notation of <I>Q</I>-analysis. Notation is established for relations between sets; simplicial complexes determined by relations; <I>q</I>-connectivity and <I>Q</I>-analysis; the structure vectors and methods of...</i></i></i>