http://www.seanliamcleary.com en-gb seanliamcleary.com 2011-6-7T00:00:00Z seanliamcleary.com http://www.seanliamcleary.com/page16.htm#95734 Following Patrick Schumachers manifesto unveiling at the Venice Biennale in 2008 much has been written and debated about parametricism parametric design and as part of those parametric urbanism. This adventgarde agenda has quietly begun to make its way into architectural discourse over the past 15 years especially within progressive schools of architecture in Western Europe and the United States and with the coming to prominence of Zaha Hadid Architects. At the biennale Schumacher director at Zaha Hadid Architects and leading contemporary writer architect and theorist enunciated Parametricism as the next great style after modernism. This movement has been made possible by the development and advancements in digital design tools which have existed in other industries for some time but have found their way into offices of architecture only recently. Software such as Bentleys Generative Components and McNeels Grasshopper for Rhino have brought associative and generative modelling tools to... 2011-6-7 21:49:25