”Architecture is different to many other design fields because 1) practically it is about the assembly of a large constellation of elements into a whole that has an interior and and exterior that are continuous in terms of design. and 2) its design history is based on the continuity and hierarchy between interior and exterior and parts and whole, thus the discourse of facades, detailing, modularity, proportion, symmetry, and so on … The relationship between parts and whole is essential to the evaluation of quality, meaning and experience of any architectural design."
“Parametric tools - that is, tools that blend the hierarchy of parts and whole - are extremely powerful for an architects because of this. Unfortunately, the initial response to parametrics was an abdication of the problem of the design of the whole in favour of the programming of the component. The use of parametric software is all about the design task shifting from either top-down or bottom-up to the territory of parts-to-whole fusion. I shy away from words like ‘feedback’ and ’synergy’ between parts and whole because so far the experimental architects have just jumped from top-down determination of parts to bottom up determination of wholes … I find this theoretically naive and it avoids the most interesting thing about parametrics, and that is the ability to fuse the hierarchy of parts and whole to produce a deeply modulated whole as well as infinitesimal variation among parts."
from a programming cultures AD issue
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