ABSTRACT
Patrik Schumacher argues that the application of parametric design approaches will produce outcomes that represent a new style to replace rationalist modernism as the way to deal with the twenty-first-century concerns of the marketplace. Parametric urban design is promoted by architects desiring to be unfettered in creating exuberant urban forms with novel precinct configurations and building shapes. Most specific urban designs generated via parametric methods are hyper-modernist building projects. Kartal Pendik is an exemplar of the use of parametric design in the creation of the profile for an urban precinct. Schumacher’s 2008 claim that parametricism is “crystalizing into a solid new hegemonic paradigm” for urban design supports the processes that result in the hyper-modernist schemes proliferating around the world. Landscape urbanists would challenge the key variables included in most present parametric designs, although in the Longgang design, ecological factors were very much included in the parameters manipulated by the algorithms used.
