The future is parametric

Zaha Hadid Architects’ Lotus room at the Venice Biennale combines furniture and architecture.

Source: David Grandorge

In Venice last week, Patrik Schumacher, partner at Zaha Hadid Architects, hailed parametricism as the great new style after modernism. This is an edited version of his manifesto

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