Abstract
This essay explores parallels between computationally based architecture—here represented by the work of Greg Lynn—and three major themes in the aesthetic theory of Immanuel Kant: aesthetic value (beauty), artistic generation (genius), and natural generation (epigenesis). Further, it interprets architecture's place within Kant's aesthetics as antinomic—that is to say, inexorably contradictory—and suggests that this interpretation offers a theoretical basis for the entanglement of computational methods with typological concerns.