In a radical departure from centuries-old tradition and norms of architectural design, the new digitally generated forms are not drawn as the conventional understanding of these terms would have it; they are calculated by a chosen generative computational method, which is the base of a parametric design, an approach that bridges into the field of computer programming. It is the parameter what is declared, not the shape, the form or the envelope. By assigning different values to the parameters, particular instances are created from a potentially infinite range of possibilities. Pencil is replaced by equations, which in turn are used to describe the relationships between the objects, thus defining an associative, linked geometry.
The objects establish relationships based on formulas, and how these interdependences are established depend to considerable extent to the architect's ability to craft them precisely. Instead of crafting a 'concept', we now craft 'relationships' and 'controlled behaviors', which shape the path to discover new form: The determinism of the precise traditional design is abandoned in favor of the unpredictable and unexpected, which often paves the way to poetic invention and creative transformation.
The risks at stake are high: non-linearity, indeterminacy, and unpredictability are anything but certain.
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