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About this book
Parametricism is an avant-garde architecture and design movement that has been growing and maturing over the last 15 years, emerging as a remarkable global force. The tendency started in architecture but now encompasses all design disciplines, from urban design to fashion. In architecture, the style has an international following and is currently progressing beyond its experimental roots to make an impact on a broader scale, with practices like Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) winning and completing large-scale architectural projects worldwide. Parametricism implies that all elements and aspects of an architectural composition or product are parametrically malleable; and the style owes its original, unmistakable physiognomy to its unprecedented use of computational design tools and fabrication methods. All design parameters are conceived as variables that allow the design to vary and adapt to the diverse, complex and dynamic requirements of contemporary society. Although Parametricism has been talked about and hotly debated for a number of years, so far there has been no publication dedicated to Parametricism. The issue is guest-edited by Patrik Schumacher, partner at ZHA, and one of the world's most highly renowned advocates of Parametricism.
Contributors: Philippe Block, Shajay Bhooshan, Mark Burry, Mario Carpo, Manuel DeLanda, John Frazer, Mark Foster Gage, Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico, Achim Menges, Theo Spyropoulos, Robert Stuart-Smith, Philip F Yuan.
Featured architects and designers: Arup, Mark Fornes/THEVERYMANY, Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Ross Lovegrove.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Editorial
- About the Guest-Editor
- Introduction Parametricism 2.0: Gearing Up to Impact the Global Built Environment
- Parametric Computation: History and Future
- Parametric Notations: The Birth of the Non-Standard
- Antoni GaudĆ and Frei Otto: Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto
- Behavioural Complexity: Constructing Frameworks for HumanāMachine Ecologies
- Upgrading Computational Design
- Behavioural Production: Autonomous Swarm-Constructed Architecture
- The Art of the Prototypical
- Parametricismās Structural Congeniality
- Computational Material Culture
- Relational Urban Models: Parameters, Values and Tacit Forms of Algorithms
- Parametric Regionalism
- āSuper-Naturalā: Parametricism in Product Design
- Advancing Social Functionality Via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology
- Hegemonic Parametricism Delivers a Market-Based Urban Order
- Parametrising the Social
- Counterpoint: A Hospice for Parametricism
- Contributors
- EULA