Can qualitative ideas of place be adequately encompassed by the quantitative methods of digital and parametric design? This wide-ranging and multi-faceted book explores how designers and architects capture the deeper qualities of place though their practice. It provides a rigorous exploration of the nature of place and its role in design in parallel with a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism.
Parametric design aims to encompass all design criteria and values relating to how a building might be experienced by using algorithmic processes and computational technology. By inputting particular parameters, all elements could be reflected in the resulting design. Drawing on ideas and approaches from diverse, disciplinary perspectives, essays in this book argue for greater attentiveness to place in contemporary design practice, and consider the potential of parametric techniques to enhance the engagement with place in design contexts. Considering place beyond the designer's touch, chapters explore other creative disciplines such as literature, art and music, seeking commonalities across the realm of imaginative endeavour in the creation of a tangible sense of place, environment and experience. Authors also discuss notions of atmosphere and interiority, and consider the potential to extend beyond the bounded internality of architectural spaces and examine interiority through ecological systems, identity and urbanism.
The book also explores ideas of home-making through various narrative, spatial, material and digital forms and the possibilities of parametric methods. By decentring existing anthropocentric understandings of place that privilege human perspectives, authors also consider other living perspectives and how design can support more-than-human places of the future.
This book provides a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism and explores how designers and architects capture the qualities of place though their practice.
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This volume offers a valuable range of critical positions that seek to overcome the technical and ideological strictures conventionally associated with parametric design. In so doing, it outlines means for computational design to foster situated interventions which are sensitive to the urgent environmental concerns of our current times. * Miguel Paredes Maldonado, Senior Lecturer in Architectural Design, The University of Edinburgh, UK *
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This book provides a detailed analysis of the nature of parametricism and explores how designers and architects capture the qualities of place though their practice.
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Preface
Foreword, Patrik Schumacher
Introduction
Mark Burry, Jeff Malpas, Gini Lee, Stanislav Roudavski, Mark Taylor
Section I: The Place of the Parametric: Philosophical and Critical
Perspectives
Section Introduction, Jeff Malpas
1. Parameter, Place, and Limit, Jeff Malpas
2. Bounding the Parametric Modesty, Limit, and Repair, Megan Baynes
3. Against Parametric Reductionism in Design, Alberto Perez Gomez
4. Place as the Core of the Sacred, Elizabeth Farrelly
5. Digital Delusions: Fear and Loathing of the Parametric Utopia, Adrian
Carter
6. High-Computation Design in the Return to Place, Randall Lindstrom
Section II: Place and Creativity Facing the blank sheet
Section Introduction, Mark Burry
7. Chasing the Elusive Parti Pris, Mark Burry
8. Empathetic Understanding as the Starting Point for Design, Nicholas
Ray
9. Defacing the Blank Place, Imogen Lesser Woods
10. Confronting the Blank Sheet and Making a Place, Neil Spiller
11. Diffusive Forms: Against Plato, Phillip Beesley
Section III: Place and Interiority Atmosphere, Feeling and Spatial
Presence
Section Introduction, Mark Taylor and Gini Lee
12. Storied Atmospheres: Place in Writing and Building, Mark Taylor
13. It Starts with a Kiss: Reading and Interpretation as an Impetus for
Adaptive Reuse, Sally Stone
14. Mapping Interiority in the Public Realm, Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi
Andri Yatmo
15. Beyond Parametric Limits in Victorias Western Grasslands: Repair and
Re-storying the Atmospherics of Place, Emily Potter
Section IV: Homeplace On the Nature of Ephemeral Traces
Section Introduction, Gini Lee
16. Three Travels in Homeplace, Gini Lee
17. The Para-meters of Placing in (an)Archive Home, Stephen Loo
18. The Parametrics of Tasmanian Gothic: How Do We Tell Ourselves That Were
at Home? Ed Hollis
19. Shift(in)g Parameters, Suzie Attiwill
Section V: More-than-Human Place Design and Management of Future
Environments
Section Introduction, Stanislav Roudavski
20. Future Places, Stanislav Roudavski
21. Reciprocity in Co-created Places A Closer Look at Human Contributions
to Nature, Amy K. Hahs
22. More-than-Human Futures: Wild by Design? Wendy Steele
23. Nature Does Not Design; It Responds, Freya Mathews
Index
Mark Burry is Professor and the Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is a practising architect and has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring challenging architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He was Senior Architect at the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation, Spain, from 1979 until late 2016. He is the editor of Digital Architecture (2020) and edited an edition of Architectural Design titled Urban Futures (2020).
Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist. Her academic focus is on cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design theory and studio practice, to engage with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Her recent curatorial practice experiments with Deep Mapping methods to investigate the landscapes, interiors and gardens of remote and rural Australia. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor in Interior Design at RMIT University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2017.
Jeff Malpas is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was founder and, until 2005, Director of the university's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He has authored and edited numerous books with some of the worlds leading academic presses and has published a wide range of scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His books include Place and Experience (2018) and Heideggers Topology (2006).
Stanislav Roudavski is Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His work explores practical and theoretical issues of more-than-human design and his research engages with philosophies of ecology, technology, design and architecture. His work has been disseminated through multiple academic publications and international exhibitions. Previously, he worked on research projects at the University of Cambridge, UK, had a teaching engagement at MIT, USA and practised architecture in several European countries.
Mark Taylor was Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His primary research focus was the history and theory of the modern architectural interior with an emphasis on cultural and social issues. He published several books including Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (2006), Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2013), Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018). He was co-editor of Domesticity under Siege: When Home isn't Safe (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022) with Georgina Downey and Terry Meade.
