Particlised: Computational Discretism, or The Rise of the Digital Discrete

Abstract

Has the dominant influence of classical science on architectural aesthetics had its day? Mario Carpo, Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural Theory and History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, comments on the evolution of a new science that has shifted away from continuous towards discrete models. As he observes, this is not limited to the most digitally minded: there are surprising parallels between the work of an architect such as Kengo Kuma, with all his anti‐computational zeal, and the young protagonists of the second digital turn.