Originally spawned from, as said in the beginning of Patrik Schumacher’s manifesto, digital animation technique, parametricism has been integrated into and matured in the field of contemporary architecture as a global new style. However, it is not its visual product that solidifies it into a new style completely, but rather, its mode of thinking. In the manifesto, Schumacher has reconceptualise style into what he called “design research programme”. Unlike the generally agreed-on notion that styles are “transient fashions”, Schumacher here speaks of one that consists of “methodological rules: some tell us what paths of research to avoid (negative heuristics), and others what paths to pursue (positive heuristics). The negative heuristics formulates strictures that prevent the relapse into old patterns that are not fully consistent with the core, and the positive heuristics offers guiding principles and preferred techniques that allows the work to fast forward in one direction.”. The thinking framework here, indeed, would allow for a continuous fast-forwarding motion in style development but upon reviewing the exemplar list provided, one might question whether this box it tries to fit in turns upon and limits itself in terms of forming new design ideas. To draw as an example from the list, one that is included in the Negative Heuristic is to avoid “simple repetition of elements” But, clearly, is it not in nature that some of the most wondrous repetition makes of for many of the best designs? To justify with the simplest of the range, the simple repetition of the simple fungal cells have resulted in colonies that are ever form-shifting and complex in its totality.
Schumacher went on to talk about the significance of parametricism towards large scale urban planning. In it, he made a reference towards an analogy by Le Corbusier “Man walks in a straight line because he has a goal and knows where he is going; he has made up his mind to reach some particular place and he goes directly to it. The pack-donkey meanders along, mediates a little in his scatter-brained and distracted fashion.” The “route of the man” was drawn from the Roman city plan and while this seems like a logical cognition, Schumacher argued that this was due to Le Corbusier’s “limited concept of order in terms of classical geometry”, backing up his argument with contemporaries like Frei Otto, who conducted experiments on self-organisation and its underlying logic.
In summary, the idea of parametricism promotes an architectural approach in which a complete system that embodies every aspect of the design process is created so that all the information within the design is linked and reacts and changes in correspondence with every element of the building. A change in one value, therefore, would change all the other value, and thus, the building shifts and evolves as a whole.
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