Place and Parametricism

Mark Burry is Professor and the Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Institute at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. He is a practising architect and has published internationally on two main themes: putting theory into practice with regard to procuring ‘challenging’ architecture, and the life, work and theories of the architect Antoni Gaudí. He was Senior Architect at the Sagrada Família Basilica Foundation, Spain, from 1979 until late 2016. He is the editor of Digital Architecture (2020) and edited an edition of Architectural Design titled Urban Futures (2020).Gini Lee is a landscape architect, interior designer and pastoralist. Her academic focus is on cultural and critical landscape architecture and spatial interior design theory and studio practice, to engage with the curation and postproduction of complex landscapes. Her recent curatorial practice experiments with Deep Mapping methods to investigate the landscapes, interiors and gardens of remote and rural Australia. She is currently Adjunct Professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, Adjunct Professor in Interior Design at RMIT University, Australia, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Adelaide, Australia. She was the Elisabeth Murdoch Chair of Landscape Architecture at the University of Melbourne from 2011 to 2017.Jeff Malpas is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He was founder and, until 2005, Director of the university's Centre for Applied Philosophy and Ethics. He has authored and edited numerous books with some of the world’s leading academic presses and has published a wide range of scholarly articles on topics in philosophy, art, architecture, and geography. His books include Place and Experience (2018) and Heidegger’s Topology (2006).Stanislav Roudavski is Senior Lecturer in Digital Architectural Design at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His work explores practical and theoretical issues of more-than-human design and his research engages with philosophies of ecology, technology, design and architecture. His work has been disseminated through multiple academic publications and international exhibitions. Previously, he worked on research projects at the University of Cambridge, UK, had a teaching engagement at MIT, USA and practised architecture in several European countries.Mark Taylor was Professor of Architecture at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. His primary research focus was the history and theory of the modern architectural interior with an emphasis on cultural and social issues. He published several books including Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader (2006), Interior Design and Architecture: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2013), Designing the French Interior: The Modern Home and Mass Media (Bloomsbury, 2015) and Flow: Interior, Landscape and Architecture in the Era of Liquid Modernity (Bloomsbury, 2018). He was co-editor of Domesticity under Siege: When Home isn't Safe (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2022) with Georgina Downey and Terry Meade.

• List of Illustrations List of ContributorsPrefaceForeword, Patrik SchumacherIntroduction Mark Burry, Jeff Malpas, Gini Lee, Stanislav Roudavski, Mark TaylorSection I: The Place of the Parametric: Philosophical and Critical Perspectives Section Introduction, Jeff Malpas1. Parameter, Place, and Limit, Jeff Malpas2. Bounding the Parametric – Modesty, Limit, and Repair, Megan Baynes3. Against Parametric Reductionism in Design, Alberto Perez Gomez4. Place as the Core of the Sacred, Elizabeth Farrelly5. Digital Delusions: Fear and Loathing of the Parametric Utopia, Adrian Carter 6. High-Computation Design in the Return to Place, Randall LindstromSection II: Place and Creativity – Facing the blank sheet Section Introduction, Mark Burry 7. Chasing the Elusive Parti Pris, Mark Burry8. Empathetic Understanding as the Starting Point for Design, Nicholas Ray9. Defacing the Blank Place, Imogen Lesser Woods10. Confronting the Blank Sheet and Making a Place, Neil Spiller11. Diffusive Forms: Against Plato, Phillip BeesleySection III: Place and Interiority – Atmosphere, Feeling and Spatial PresenceSection Introduction, Mark Taylor and Gini Lee12. Storied Atmospheres: Place in Writing and Building, Mark Taylor13. It Starts with a Kiss: Reading and Interpretation as an Impetus for Adaptive Reuse, Sally Stone14. Mapping Interiority in the Public Realm, Paramita Atmodiwirjo and Yandi Andri Yatmo15. Beyond Parametric Limits in Victoria’s Western Grasslands: Repair and Re-storying the Atmospherics of Place, Emily PotterSection IV: Homeplace – On the Nature of Ephemeral TracesSection Introduction, Gini Lee 16. Three Travels in Homeplace, Gini Lee17. The Para-meters of Placing in (an)Archive Home, Stephen Loo 18. The Parametrics of Tasmanian Gothic: How Do We Tell Ourselves That We’re at Home? Ed Hollis19. Shift(in)g Parameters, Suzie AttiwillSection V: More-than-Human Place – Design and Management of Future EnvironmentsSection Introduction, Stanislav Roudavski20. Future Places, Stanislav Roudavski21. Reciprocity in Co-created Places – A Closer Look at Human Contributions to Nature, Amy K. Hahs22. More-than-Human Futures: Wild by Design? Wendy Steele23. Nature Does Not ‘Design’; It Responds, Freya MathewsIndex

This volume offers a valuable range of critical positions that seek to overcome the technical and ideological strictures conventionally associated with parametric design. In so doing, it outlines means for computational design to foster situated interventions which are sensitive to the urgent environmental concerns of our current times.