Is parametricism the defining architecture style of the 21st century?

Um, so why are we talking about parametricism now?

Well, over the last 10 years at Dezeen, we've been looking at various different architecture styles, having a in-depth look at what they mean, um, why they came about, and basically as a kind of like learning, but also looking back and kind of thinking about what does that mean for current architecture.

And we've been hitting them pretty much ish chronologically.

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We started a bit, I think, with kind of brutalism, and we've moved through different styles.

Recently did high tech, and then we did deconstructivism and, and the next step basically was parametricism.

So kind of there's a logic to it, kind of like, let's look at this.

There's also now been enough time since it was first coined to kind of look back and go, "What can we learn from this? Um, what has happened?" Also for Dezeen, it's pretty good subject because it's pretty complicated, many would say overcomplicated.

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And often what we're good at, or we hope we're good at, is explaining kind of complicated things and interesting things to a broad audience.

So I, I guess that's probably what we're gonna be doing today.

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Probably.

And also, if I remember correctly, I think this year is the 10th anniversary of Zaha Hadid's death.

Obviously, Zaha Hadid, one of the architects probably most closely associated with the style, even though she never called herself a parametricist.

It is a good moment to reflect because although one other person is obviously way more connected to the style, who we will mention shortly, there's no doubting that her buildings are some of the key examples of parametric.

If you Google parametric architecture, the main buildings that come up are designed by Zaha Hadid and the curves that, you know, she was named the Queen of the Curve.

These, these are very much connected with Zaha Hadid and the studio.

Yeah.