Patrik Schumacher, 2008
image: Politics of Parametricism, conference by Matthew Poole and Manuel Shvartzberg
Patrik Schumacher’s Parametricism – A New Global Style for Architecture and Urban Design is a clear statement of how he visualizes the architecture world today. To him, social complexity defines the relation between architecture and urbanism through parametricism; it is beyond style, it is a continuous research line… Read More
From science to sociology, the ants colony organization, the human cells communication, the great cities development, Steven Johnson trough these three case studies explores the different interactions typologies from a micro to a macro scale, in order to study the relations between local interaction and global behavior.
The author analyze first the ants life, the colony organization, in order to understand the collective intelligence of the colony system.
The ant colony is a complex and intelligent system based on a single and “stupid” one, the ant indeed, with an incredible knack for engineering and social coordination without clear roles but with a coordinated work to assure a global situation. Read More
Manual De Landa discussed the genesis of form according to the philosophical approach of Gilles Deleuze .For Manual De Landa , Deleuze believes that genesis of forms was found according to the boundaries and opportunities of external physical forces .So for Deleuze the problem was that the western philosophy conceptions of matter is wrong in terms of believing that form has no forces from the inside and they only come from outside .Deleuze approach is a combination of a physical and mathematical oriented to understand and disintegrate the virtual form.
In his text, “ Parametricism: A new global style for architecture and urban design”, Patrick Shumacher tries to convince the reader that parametricism is a style, and for this he uses multiple arguments.
First, he explains parametricism in a context of a research programme, which automatically justifies and legitimizes the unanswered issues and the unclear processes. Indeed presenting all the parametric manifestations as “experiences” protects all the parametric projects from eventual critics, whether at an intellectual or practical level, and sets a safe ground for his following argumentation.
In his argumentation, he describes parametricism as more than a set of tools, he argues that the nature of the digital
Emergence (Steve Johnson)
The connected lives of ants, brains, cities and software
As Steve Johnson says, it’s amazing how ants have been on the planet since the beginning of time due of their complex organization, hence the reason you need to understand their organization and complexity of their systems, Steve Johnson compares metaphorically community ant, with the DNA , cells and cities.
Hence the main theme, what is emergency? , What is a complex system? and how they work from a micro scale like cells , ants to a macro scale like cities . Read More
