The Politics of Parametricism

Matthew Poole is a curator of contemporary art and a curatorial theorist. He currently works at California State University San Bernardino, where he is the Chair of the Department of Art. Manuel Shvartzberg is an architect and researcher. He is currently based in New York City where he is a Researcher at The Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture, GSAPP and a Graduate Fellow of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, both at Columbia University, USA.

1. Introduction
Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK and Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA

2. The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order
Patrik Schumacher, Zaha Hadid Architects, UK

3. On Numbers, More or Less
Reinhold Martin, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA

4. There is No Such Thing as a Political Architecture; There is No Such Thing as Digital Architecture
Neil Leach, USC School of Architecture, USA

5. Parametricist Architecture Would be a Good Idea
Benjamin Bratton, University of California, San Diego, USA

6. 'Play Turtle, Do It Yourself': Flocks, Swarms, Schools, and the Political-Architectural Imaginary
Manuel Shvartzberg, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA

7. Breeding Ideology: Parametricism and Biological Architecture
Christina Cogdell, University of California, Davis, USA

8. Speculation, Presumption and Assumption: The Ideology of Algebraic-to-Parametric Workspace
Matthew Poole, Freelance Curator/Writer, UK

9. Undelete: Recreating Uncensored Archives
Laura Kurgan & Dan Taeyoung, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, USA

10. Architecture as Disputing Calculations: Notes for a Pragmatic Reframing of Parametricism and Architecture
Andrés Jaque, Andrés Jaque Architects: Office for Political Innovation, Spain

11. Parametric Schizophrenia
Peggy Deamer, Yale School of Architecture, USA

12. The Architecture of Neoliberalism
Teddy Cruz, University of California, San Diego, USA

13. Parameter Value
Phillip G. Bernstein, Autodesk, USA

14. Spinoza's Geometric and Ecological Ratios
Peg Rawes, Bartlett School of Architecture, UK

Index