Focus on: thedotisblack by David Mrugala

David Mrugala is a German architect, educator and professional, currently living in Seoul, Korea. In general David works across and utilizes different types of media in relation to architecture and urban design. David launched the platform thedotisblack to explore generative drawings using the programming language Processing.

The main focus of the thedotisblack is to develop simple rules through coding that utilize basic design principles and that can be used for further development. In geometry, one always finds a circular argument that brings things together again, providing direction and flexibility. Thus in this context, coding does not only emphasize on this relationship among its parts but also enables the potential for a very high complexity of the whole that can be controlled by the designer. thedotisblack is exploring this complexity and control.”

“From my architectural background, in general, I think that in contrast to other art and human endeavors, architectural design is the one which is the most generated by intellect, consciousness and reason. It is only intuitive to a degree where the use of geometry in the organization and calculation of proportion and dimension plays an important role in design. It gives a degree of self-control and allows the architectural designer to follow rules which if not followed would lead to a dead-end. There would be arbitrariness and then how could one continue?“