{"id":7775,"date":"2026-05-07T10:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=7775"},"modified":"2026-05-08T15:10:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T15:10:01","slug":"im-not-happy-with-how-fast-parametricism-is-being-adopted-says-patrik-schumacher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/05\/07\/im-not-happy-with-how-fast-parametricism-is-being-adopted-says-patrik-schumacher\/","title":{"rendered":"“I’m not happy” with how fast parametricism is being adopted says Patrik Schumacher"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite it being adopted more slowly than he anticipated, Patrik Schumacher<\/a>\u00a0believes parametricism<\/a> will still become a universal architectural style, he tells Dezeen in this interview<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Almost two decades have passed since Zaha Hadid Architects<\/a> principal Schumacher coined parametricism as a term at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale<\/a>.<\/p>\n

At the time, he declared parametricism “the great new style after modernism”, prophesying that it would become the universal architecture style of the 21st century. He still believes that it will become the style that defines our era.<\/p>\n

“Yes \u2013 it is still going to be true and it is already partly true when you look at major projects,” Schumacher told Dezeen.<\/p>\n

“It’s not universal, but it’s sufficiently entrenched,” he continued. “It’s been long-lasting, people still go for it, you still win major competitions and so it is definitely longer lasting than [for example] deconstructivism<\/a>, which had a run of 10 years and then fully disappeared, or postmodernism<\/a>, which also disappeared.”<\/p>\n

Global economic crisis “a watershed moment”<\/strong><\/p>\n

However, Schumacher acknowledges that \u2013 to his own disappointment \u2013 parametricism has not yet been widely adopted by the industry, and at the moment is far from a universal style.<\/p>\n

“No, I’m not happy,” he said. “I was very happy with it [the rate of adoption] until 2008 actually.”<\/p>\n

“I mean, it’s strange that when I launched the phrase it was still moving and was confident. It took me a while to realise that the 2008 crisis was in retrospect a kind of watershed moment,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“We were all going for a number of years still, but it actually, if you look back, it’s when it started to slow.”<\/p>\n

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Zaha Hadid Architects’ Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku is one of the most recognisable parametric buildings<\/a>. Photo by Hufton + Crow<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Schumacher believes that the global economic recession, combined with leading architecture schools moving their focus away from digital design, led to a slowdown in the adoption of parametricism.<\/p>\n

“By 2015, 16, 17 it had kind of shifted,” he said. “There was a lot of retrogression, to some extent less interest in design. There was less opportunity in Europe, Dubai was dead. China kept going. But, overall, it was frustrating.”<\/p>\n

“By like 2012-13 it was still good, but I saw it kind of fading off, particularly at leading universities,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“They withdrew and went into this woke kind of territory \u2013 anti-capitalism, anti-design, anti-star architecture.”<\/p>\n

“I only see modernism and then parametricism”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Schumacher places parametricism alongside modernism<\/a> as an “epochal style” \u2013 meaning that it is era-defining.<\/p>\n

Within his definitions, he sees high-tech<\/a> and brutalism<\/a> as sub-styles within modernism, while he describes postmodernism and deconstructivism as transition styles that bridged the gap between modernism and parametricism.<\/p>\n