Versus Parametricism | Versus Parametryzm

Through numerous references to language and etymology, philosophy, aesthetics, and the theory of automatic systems, the essay aims to question the use of parametric technologies, whether generative or not, in the field of architecture and much less so in the field of design. Such technologies are not only dehumanising but also make us lose all reference to the concrete reality of construction and to the poietic and ideational aspect as well as to the authorial one. A para-project that therefore not only ‘throws forward’ but also allows for additions, corrections, amendments, and rhizomatic proliferations depending on use or changing needs. The dehumanising power of technology, which deludes many of us with magnificent progressive fates, with previously unexplored possibilities, on closer inspection hides a distance, a dramatic estrangement with architecture itself and its millenary foundations. The non-transient foundations that constitutively, no instrumental technique will ever even be able to shake. The art of building, Baukunst “masters and dominates” technics and, by definition, cannot be its servile defeated or servant. The captivating but commodifying and homologising mirage of a self-generating grammar of shape does not allow the convenient, adequate and intelligible forms, capable of a generalised reception à-la Benjamin, in their non-automatic but intentional relationship, to become expressive of the value and meaning of buildings.