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Discrete Sampling: There is No Object or Field … Just Statistical Digital Patterns
Author(s) -
Koh Immanuel
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2418
Subject(s) - pavilion , architecture , object (grammar) , field (mathematics) , sampling (signal processing) , relevance (law) , art history , architectural engineering , archaeology , art , computer science , visual arts , history , engineering , artificial intelligence , telecommunications , mathematics , law , detector , political science , pure mathematics
The analogue differentiation between figure and ground has long been a given in architectural design. Challenging this, Immanuel Koh 's doctoral research at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland involves digitally decomposing existing designs into discrete figure‐and‐ground cells. These can then generate new configurations with similar spatial features to the iconic structures they derive from: Walter Gropius's 1926 Bauhaus building in Dessau, Mies van der Rohe's 1929 Barcelona Pavilion, and Andrea Branzi's 1969 No‐Stop City . He reflects on precursors to his work and on its relevance to architecture's future.