African Shape Grammar: A Language of Linear Ndebele Homesteads

T Herbert, I Sanders and G Mills
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G Mills: Department of Architecture, University of the Witwatersrand, WITS 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa

Environment and Planning B, 1994, vol. 21, issue 4, 453-476

Abstract: A shape grammar of the spatial design of linear Ndebele homesteads is presented. The results suggest that this analytical technique provides a useful means for relating spatial layout to social ideas in a class of architectural designs.

Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1068/b210453

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