Place and parametricism critical, archival and digital approaches to contemporary design edited by Mark Burry, Gini Lee, Jeff Malpas, Stanislav Roudavski, Mark Taylor

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Burry, Mark, editor.

Lee, Gini, editor.

Taylor, Mark, 1955- editor.

Roudavski, Stanislav, editor.

Malpas, Jeff, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architectural design--Data processing.

Architectural design.

Architecture--Technological innovations.

Architecture.

Architecture--Computer-aided design.

Place (Philosophy) in architecture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2026

Summary:

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"-- Bloomsbury Collections

Contents:

Parameter, place and limit / Jeff Malpas

Bounding the parametric – modesty, limit and repair / Megan Baynes

Against parametric reductionism in design / Alberto Pérez-Gómez

Place as the core of the sacred / Elizabeth Farrelly

Digital delusion : Fear and loathing in the parametric utopia / Adrian Carter

High-computaion design in the return to place / Randall Lindstrom

Chasing the elusive parti pris / Mark Burry

Empathetic understanding as the starting point for design / Nicholas Ray

Defacing the blank place / Imogen Lesser Woods

Confronting the blank sheet and making a place / Neil Spiller

Diffusive forms : Against Plato / Phillip Beesley

Storied atmospheres : Place in writing and building / Mark Taylor

It starts with a kiss : Reading and interpretation as an impetus for adaptive reuse / Sally Stone

Mapping interiority in the public realm / Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Yandi Andri Yatmo

Beyond parametric limits in Victoria’s western grasslands : Repair and re-storying the atmospherics of place / Emily Potter

Travels in/with/through homeplace / Gini Lee

The para-meters of placing in (an)archive home / Stephen Loo

The parametrics of Tasmanian Gothic : How do we tell ourselves that we’re at home? / Edward Hollis

Shift(in)g parameters / Suzie Attiwill

Future places / Stanislav Roudavski

Reciprocity in co-created places – a closer look at human contributions to nature / Amy K. Hahs

Nature does not ‘design’; it responds / Freya Mathews

More-than-human futures : Wild by design? / Wendy Steele

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Place and parametricism

ISBN:

9781350330016

1350330019

9781350330009

1350330000

9781350329997

1350329991

OCLC:

1520505430

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