Claypool, Mollie

Bio Sketch

Mollie Claypool is an architectural researcher and theorist (UCL), co-founder of the Automated Architecture (AUAR) labs and formerly part of the UCL-Bartlett community working on computational and "discrete" architecture. She writes on digital fabrication, the politics of digital production, and the ontology of architecture.

Key Works

• "The Discrete Turn: A Reconsideration of Architecture's Ontology" (2018, P.E.A.R./UCL Press).
• Co-editor of the Architectural Design issue on Discrete (2019, with Gilles Retsin and José Sánchez).

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Discrete
• Architectural Object

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

Claypool matters to Geoffrey's neoliberalism & architecture and postmodernism & critique areas insofar as the "discrete"/second-digital-turn programme is a key contemporary claim about architecture's ontology and its sociopolitical potential — to be weighed against critiques of parametricism-as-neoliberalism (Spencer, Hopkins) and the financialized object (Bismarck).

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• The Discrete Turn: A Reconsideration of Architecture's Ontology