Blobitecture and Parametrics

*What happens when parametric architecture gets too cheap and too easy? Karrie Jacobs wonders.

*I think I already know, but it's nice to see the issue being raised here. Note that the cover of this month's METROPOLIS is a "twenty-thousand-dollar house" made out of scrap. Is there a reason that isn't parametric technokitsch scrap yet? Yes… because it isn't 2015 yet.

http://www.metropolismag.com/story/20090722/off-the-shelf-genius

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