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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 environment is increasingly addressed, designed and constructed using digital software based on parametric scripting platforms which claim to be able to process complex physical and social modelling alike.

As more and more digital tools are developed into an apparently infinite repertoire of socio-technical functions, critical questions concerning these cultural and technological shifts are often eclipsed by the seductive aesthetic and the alluring futuristic imaginary that parametric design tools and their architectural products and discourses represent.

The Politics of Parametricism addresses these issues, offering a collection of new essays written by leading international thinkers in the fields of digital design, architecture, theory and technology. Exploring the social, political, ethical and philosophical issues at stake in the history, practice and processes of parametric architecture and urbanism, each chapter provides different vantage points to interrogate the challenges and opportunities presented by this latest mode of technological production.

Tabla de contenidos provista por Syndetics

• List of illustrations(p. vii)
• List of contributors(p. ix)
• Acknowledgments(p. xv)
• 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• 2 The historical pertinence of parametricism and the prospect of a free market urban order(p. 19)
• 3 On numbers, more or less(p. 45)
• 4 There is no such thing as political architecture. There is no such thing as digital architecture(p. 58)
• 5 Parametricist architecture would be a good idea(p. 79)
• 6 Play Turtle, Do It Yourself. Flocks, swarms, schools, and the architectural-political imaginary(p. 94)
• 7 Breeding ideology: Parametricism and biological architecture(p. 123)
• 8 Speculation, presumption, and assumption: The ideology of algebraic-to-parametric workspace(p. 138)
• 9 Undelete: Recreating censored archives(p. 159)
• 10 Disputing calculations in architecture: Notes for a pragmatic reframing of parametricism and architecture(p. 168)
• 11 Parametric schizophrenia(p. 178)
• 12 The architecture of neoliberalism(p. 189)
• 13 Parameter value(p. 200)
• 14 Spinoza's geometric and ecological ratios(p. 213)
• Bibliography(p. 231)
• Index(p. 245)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Matthew Poole is a freelance curator and curatorial theorist. Previously he was programme Director of the Centre for Curatonal Studies in the School of Philosophy Art History at the University of Essex, UK.
Manuel Shvartzberg is an architect and researcher. He is currently based in New York City where he is a Researcher at The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, GSAPP and a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, both at Columbia University, USA.