Shape grammars and grammatical evolution for evolutionary design

We describe the first steps in the adoption of Shape Gram-mars with Grammatical Evolution for application in Evo-lutionary Design. Combining the concepts of Shape Gram-mars and Genetic Programming opens up the exciting pos-sibility of truly generative design assist tools. In this ini-tial study we provide some background on the adoption of grammar-based Genetic Programming for Evolutionary De-sign, describe Shape Grammars, and give a brief overview of Grammatical Evolution before detailing how Grammatical Evolution used Shape Grammars to successfully rediscover some benchmark target structures