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Parametric Design's Influence on Today's Architecture

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  Parametric Design’s Influence on Today’s Architecture   Parametric designing or the use if artificial intelligence in designing is increasing over the years. It is a form of generative designing based on a given set of algorithms, codes and scripts which are fed into a software to create responsive forms. Most used software for this form of designing are Robert McNeel & Associates’ Grasshopper, Bentley Systems’ Generative Components, and Revit Autodesk’s Dynamo. Parametric design considers the given variables, codes, data and how they interact with each other and their collective response to these variations. It helps the student and designers in understanding the impact each variable can have on a design. Multiple parameters are used to define the bounds of a generated design which encourages the designers to think about multiple ways to resolve issues that may arise during said designing. The amount of creative engagement with design is also increased because each step in
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With or Without You

Materializing the Ghosts of Architecture Women architects are often poorly acknowledged in contrast to their male counterparts, and sometimes they aren’t credited at all. Beatriz Colomina in her lecture on ‘The Secret Life of Modern Architecture’ stated that “Women are the ghosts of architecture” citing the example of the Barcelona Pavilion designed by Mies van der Rohe for which he was solely credited while Lily Reich, his partner in planning, was forgotten. Despite playing a key role in designing and erecting the structure, her contribution is not recognized. Mies van der Rohe’s collaborative project with Lily Reich for the Exposition de la Mode in Berlin was definitive for his later projects. It was Lily’s input that led to the draperies of velvet and silk hanging from metal rods which defined the space; a key feature of the project which seemed to have made such a significant impact on van der Rohe that those draperies became his trademark as delineated in his project Tugendhat H
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