Chinmay_2&3 - Atlas of Novel Tectonics

2/ Difference in Kind / Difference in Degree

• The author used the analogy of the games of chess and go, from Gilles Deleuze to illustrate the difference between classical architecture and their work. Classical architecture has its own clear and fixed identity, like chess elements. Author’s work operates at times like a Go, where each element’s meaning only exist in the contextual relationships with other elements.
• No distinction between ornament and structure.
• The Astana Railway Station in Kazakhstan by Lava Architects represents the similar qualities of difference in degree. The same material is used for the structure as well as aesthetic in varying degree as per the requirements.

3/ The Unformed Generic Form Acquiring Content

• The author says Leonardo da Vinci’s use of stain indicates the emerging possibilities of programs and compositions out of an unspecific form. These compositions occupy the space between the abstract and the concrete. Like Leonardo da Vinci, the authors also start their work from the middle, projecting material into a diagrammatic field.

4/ Similar and Difference

• Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s analogy of a racehorse being closer to greyhound, and a draft horse being close to an ox. Even though they look different they are similar in the level of the performance.
• Elements in a self-similar structure behave differently even they look similar.