Head Banging: Engineering Neutrality + the Parametric Ceiling |
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| Authors: | Francesca Hughes |
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| Abstract: | Through the work of Unit 15 at the Architectural Association in London, Francesca Hughes and Noam Andrews have been exploring the limits of parametric systems. Here Francesca Hughes questions whether parametricism has now hit a ‘developmental ceiling’. What are the full cultural implications of the promised instantaneity of completed components in architectural production? Where does the ‘strange engineered neutrality’ of ‘optimisation’ take us? Is there a real danger that an ambivalence to context is returning us to the tabula rasa of Modernism?. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | Noam Andrews, Optimal Conflict at the Murailles West, Ceuta, Spain, 2004 Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Vedute di Roma, Plate 58 -Veduta dell' Anfiteatro Flavio, detto il Colosseo, 1751 Noam Andrews, Hypertrophic Storage Facility, Ceuta, Spain, 2005 Le Corbusier form arriving ‘from above’ form ‘finding itself’ Gergely Kovács, Lessons from Piranesi, Rome, 2008 Gergely Kovács, Inversion of the Temple Mount, Jerusalem, 2009 current applications of parametric systems do very strange things to the idea of context Karl Kjelstrup-Johnson, Hannibal's Indeterminacy, French Alps, 2008 Karl Kjelstrup-Johnson, Hypercontextual Urban Infrastructure, Naples, Italy, 2009 Architectural Association Unit 15 projects |
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