Discreteness in the Architecture of the 21st Century

摘要

The architect of the 21st century faces the question of how to encode the modern world. The advancement of modern technology inspires the architect's experiments with the form. This article considers the phenomenon of discreteness in architecture, firstly, as a specific aesthetic phenomenon in architecture (on the example of architectural projects by Retsin, Rehm, Wiscombe), and secondly, from the point of view of modern philosophy (Simondon), which departs from the well-known principle of "matter-form" and strengthens the role of the act of invention, a mental operation, uniquely related to the dynamics of individuation. While the theory and practice of discreteness in architecture today is maturing in the system of unrealized design, working with discrete form inspires the architect. The architecture of the near future is a subject of the invention, relying on computer procedures of incredible speed.