In the theory of Autopoiesis of Architecture, Patrik Schumacher categorizes styles to epochal, subsidiary and transitional styles. He looks back through history and aligns the epochal styles of architect with socio-economic epoch, mainly based on Niklas Luhmann's theory. Four major epochal styles are distinguished respectively as Renaissance, Baroque, Neoclassicism/Historicism and Modernism. Schumacher argues here that Parametrism will be the fifth epochal styles of 21st century in architectural history. Parametrism is a solution that organises and articulates the increased complexity of post- Fordist network society. It contains a series of new concepts and methods, which are so different from the repertoire of traditional or modern architecture that one is justified to speak of the emergence of a new paradigm within architecture.Parametrism has been explored through the global network of researchers for over 30 years, it is maturing through a whole series of successful, high profile research and built projects on all scales and across many programmes. The concept of parametrism, as a unified style of the 21st century, started initially as a unified avant-garde design research programme, and eventually graduated into a unified system of principles, ambitions and values that constitute global best practice.%帕特里克·舒马赫在《建筑学的自组织系统》一书中将风格分为时代性的、从属性的和过渡性的风格。他以尼克拉斯·卢曼的社会学理论为基础,辨析了建筑学中时代性风格和其所属时代的社会经济背景之间的对应关系,从而分析出四大时代性风格——文艺复兴、巴洛克、新古典主义或历史主义和现代主义。舒马赫认为参数化主义将成为建筑历史中第五种、属于21世纪的时代性风格。参数化主义是组织和厘清日益复杂的后福特主义网络社会的一个解决方案,它拥有一系列与传统或现代建筑学领域都不相同的新概念和方法,人们或可由此判定建筑学全新范式的出现。参数化主义已经在世界网络化的研究者群体中被探索了逾30年。它借由一系列成功、高调的、各种规模和功能的研究和建成项目逐渐成熟。参数化主义作为21世纪的主导风格,最初是先锋设计研究模式,最终则成为统一的原则、抱负和价值系统,构成最佳的全球实践。
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