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Patrik Schumacher on parametricism in both architecture and fashion

United Kingdom Architecture News - Sep 12, 2016 - 15:10   17010 views

Patrik Schumacher on parametricism in both architecture and fashion

The father of parametricism, Patrik Schumacher talked about Zaha Hadid's legacy and passion for architecture and the movement of parametric design that most of the architects, experts or clients could not embraced yet. 

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He sees parametricism as the architectural style of capitalism, to which he is a relatively recent convert. “My early heroes were Marx, Lenin and Trotsky, people who wanted to make an impact”, but he now believes that free enterprise is the best means of the “human development of prosperity and freedom”. The innate logic of parametricism means that, in a truly free market, with “freer utilisation of land”, it would eventually triumph.

“To the extent that architecture matters and makes a difference,” he replies, parametricism means that “what used to be ineffable and intuitive becomes finally more scientifically tractable and computationally modellable.” Which still isn’t really evidence.......Continue Reading

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