Parametric Design

Offering new ways of controlling form, parametric design allows architecture to react to its context, the environment and rules and regulations, enabling a completely digital workflow from design to manufacturing. In an article for the Huffington Post, Adel Zakout argues that this trend toward complexity leads to new design problems, requiring a deeper understanding of geometry, mathematics and computer software. The architect mustn't forget that he must be a master of and control the tool, rather than the other way around.