The writings of Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee, Bauhaus theorists and pioneers of nonrepresentational art, are the framework for a discussion of contemporary issues in computational design. Kandinsky and Klee wrote of the many misguided dualisms in the art theory and pedagogy of their time. They sought to reconcile the seemingly mutually exclusive issues associated with abstraction in art. Some of these dualisms, and new ones, arise today in discussions of computational design. How and whether these dualisms can be reconciled in computational design are considered here.
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