ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary

Tim and Joe review Anarchitecture’s interview with Patrik Schumacher, Director of Zaha Hadid Architects (Episode #ana011), to clarify and highlight key points. We elaborate on topics including historical architectural styles, computer-generated design, parametric urbanism, and the challenges of promoting radical ideas.

Intro

I’m not withdrawing anything of what I’ve been saying. However, one needs to be aware of how one says it, how one mediates it, and how one explains that what we’re talking about is precisely aiming for the same fundamental hopes and ideals of a free and prosperous, emancipated and pleasant human condition.

Discussion

• Historical styles of architecture
  • Alberti’s architectural theory as the start of the discourse of architecture
  • Fordism, modernism, and progressivism
  • Post-Fordist network society
  • Post-modernism
  • Deconstructivism
  • Parametricism – complexity and order
  • Frank Gehry and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

• Computer-generated design and input parameters
  • Parametric curves – multiple Y values for a given X value
  • Too many parameters can over-calibrate predictive models, but could be an advantage in architectural design.
  • Fractal design

• Parametric Urbanism
  • Garbage spill urbanism
  • Urban harmony through Parametricism
  • Perceiving more complex types of order
  • I guess you’re not ready for that yet. But your kids are gonna love it.
  • Van Halen requires preconditioning.
  • Path-dependence

• The challenges of promoting parametricism and libertarianism / anarcho-capitalism
  • A messiah event
  • Long-term one on one conversations
  • Shock value
  • Crisis as catalyst
  • Market-based solutions are necessary, and may be sufficient

• Transitioning to a stateless society requires three things:
  1. Convince people that the initiation of force is wrong
  2. Convince people that governments initiate force
  3. Convince people that there are viable market alternatives to governmental services

Links/Resources

• Episodes in this series on Patrik Schumacher:
  • Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana009: Patrik Schumacher (1 of 4) | Introduction and Housing Controversy – An introduction to Patrik, and Tim’s blog post about Patrik’s controversial housing presentation
  • Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana010: Patrik Schumacher (2 of 4) | Media Maelstrom – Tim and Joe’s critique of media responses to Patrik’s housing presentation
  • Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana011: Patrik Schumacher (3 of 4) | The Interview – Tim’s interview with Patrik at the Zaha Hadid Design Gallery in London
  • Anarchitecture Podcast Episode ana012: Patrik Schumacher (4 of 4) | Post-Interview Commentary – Tim and Joe review and highlight key points from the interview

• patrikschumacher.com – Patrik’s publications, interviews, and lectures, including his two-volume book on architectural theory, “The Autopoiesis of Architecture”
• The Stages of Capitalism and the Styles of Architecture – Patrik’s analysis of the proper relationships between architecture, politics, and socio-economic conditions
• The Historical Pertinence of Parametricism and the Prospect of a Free Market Urban Order, Patrik Schumacher, London 2014 – A comprehensive argument for parametric urbanism. Includes photos of “garbage spill urbanization” and student work demonstrating multi-author parametric urban development
• Zaha Hadid Architects 2014 promotional video
  
• Zaha Hadid Architects project archive
  
• Zaha Hadid Design Gallery
• Housing for Everyone – Dezeen’s video of Patrik’s controversial presentation at the November 2016 World Architecture Festival
• Tim’s blog post: Patrik Schumacher, Anarcho-Capitalist Architect
• Back to the Future – Kids may not be ready for this link, but your parents are gonna love it

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