The Politics of Parametricism Digital Technologies in Architecture

• Main Author: Matthew Poole, Manuel Shvartzberg, Matthew Poole, Manuel Shvartzberg
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London Bloomsbury Publishing Plc 2015; Bloomsbury Publishing; Bloomsbury Academic
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Architectural design; Architectural Theory, Culture and Criticism; ARCHITECTURE; Digital Architectural Design; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / Product; Theory and Practice of Design

Over the last decade, ‘parametricism’ has been heralded as a new avant-garde in the industries of architecture, urban design, and industrial design, regarded by many as the next grand style in the history of architecture, heir to postmodernism and deconstruction. From buildings to cities, the built...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - The historical pertinence of parametricism and the prospect of a free market urban order - On numbers, more or less - There is no such thing as political architecture. There is no such thing as digital architecture - Parametricist architecture would be a good idea - Play Turtle, Do It Yourself. Flocks, swarms, schools, and the architectural-political imaginary - Breeding ideology: Parametricism and biological architecture - Speculation, presumption, and assumption: The ideology of algebraic-to-parametric workspace - Undelete: Recreating censored archives - Disputing calculations in architecture: notes for a pragmatic reframing of parametricism and architecture - Parametric schizophrenia - The architecture of neoliberalism - Parameter value - Spinoza’s geometric and ecological ratios
• Introduction - The historical pertinence of parametricism and the prospect of a free market urban order - On numbers, more or less - There is no such thing as political architecture. There is no such thing as digital architecture - Parametricist architecture would be a good idea - Play Turtle, Do It Yourself. Flocks, swarms, schools, and the architectural-political imaginary - Breeding ideology: Parametricism and biological architecture - Speculation, presumption, and assumption: The ideology of algebraic-to-parametric workspace - Undelete: Recreating censored archives - Disputing calculations in architecture: Notes for a pragmatic reframing of parametricism and architecture - Parametric schizophrenia - The architecture of neoliberalism - Parameter value - Spinoza’s geometric and ecological ratios
• Cover -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- List of contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The historical pertinence of parametricism and the prospect of a free market urban order -- 3 On numbers, more or less -- 4 There is no such thing as political architecture. There is no such thing as digital architecture -- 5 Parametricist architecture would be a good idea -- 6 Play Turtle, Do It Yourself. Flocks, swarms, schools, and the architectural-political imaginary -- 7 Breeding ideology: Parametricism and biological architecture -- 8 Speculation, presumption, and assumption: The ideology of algebraic-to-parametric workspace -- 9 Undelete: Recreating censored archives -- 10 Disputing calculations in architecture: Notes for a pragmatic reframing of parametricism and architecture -- 11 Parametric schizophrenia -- 12 The architecture of neoliberalism -- 13 Parameter value -- 14 Spinoza's geometric and ecological ratios -- Bibliography -- Index