Parametricism 2.0 : rethinking architecture’s agenda for the 21st century

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Editorial 05 Helen Castle About the Guest-Editor 06 Patrik Schumacher Introduction Parametricism 2.0: Gearing Up to Impact the Global Built Environment 08 Patrik Schumacher Parametric Computation: History and Future 18 John Frazer Parametric Notations: The Birth of the Non-Standard 24 Mario Carpo Antoni Gaudi and Frei Otto: Essential Precursors to the Parametricism Manifesto 30 Mark Burry Behavioural Complexity: Constructing Frameworks for Human Machine Ecologies 36 Theodore Spyropoulos Upgrading Computational Design 44 Shajay Bhooshan Behavioural Production: Autonomous Swarm-Constructed Architecture 54 Robert Stuart-Smith The Art of the Prototypical 60 Marc Fornes Parametricism s Structural Congeniality 68 Philippe Block Computational Material Culture 76 Achim Menges Relational Urban Models: Parameters, Values and Tacit Forms of Algorithms 84 Enriqueta Llabres and Eduardo Rico Parametric Regionalism 92 Philip Yuan Super-Natural Parametricism in Product Design 100 Ross Lovegrove Advancing Social Functionality Via Agent-Based Parametric Semiology 108 Patrik Schumacher Hegemonic Parametricism Delivers a Market-Based Urban Order 114 Patrik Schumacher Parametrising the Social 124 Manuel DeLanda Counterpoint: A Hospice for Parametricism 128 Mark Foster Gage Contributors 134