It's interesting that people are searching for the escape hatch, and I appreciate the videos, but I don't have much hope in parametricism. The reason I don't h

It's interesting that people are searching for the escape hatch, and I appreciate the videos, but I don't have much hope in parametricism. The reason I don't have much hope is that parametricism has arrived, it just isn't evenly distributed yet. One of the key ideas in the videos you mentioned was the digital tooling that enables parametricism. I need to point out that the same tools and ideas are already put to use in digital asset/content creation. We've already experienced the negative side of parametricism in digital content, specifically games that employ procedural generation. But shouldn't procedural[parametric] design of digital content provide endless variety? The reality is more complicated and this is where I have one reason to believe it won't, and one reason to believe it will. The reason parametric design won't provide endless variety is the Ten Thousands Bowls of Oatmeal Problem I referenced above. Just because each instantiation is different, variety must be semantically meaningful. It doesn't matter that each bowel of oatmeal has a unique combination of fruit, nuts, honey, and spices. It's that at the end of the day they are all just bowls of oatmeal. Real variety would be scrambled eggs, crepes, or breakfast in bed. I don't have hope that architects will be able to create salient variation ie: perceptual uniqueness. Adding more variational parameters doesn't guarantee any increase in perceptual uniqueness. In fact, it's an open question[1] as to what does. The reason I think parametric design could succeed is that the equation for parametric architecture is different than that of digital content. Manual curation, for example, is a huge cost compared to procedural generation, but a negligible cost compared to building a building. Curation may pose an effective filter against perceptual sameness. I'll likely remain a cynic until evidence that parametricism indeed offers a way out of the doldrums of the last 80 years of architecture. 1.https://knivesandpaintbrushes.org/projects/why-oatmeal-is-cheap/why_oatmeal_is_cheap_fdg2023.pdf https://knivesandpaintbrushes.org/projects/why-oatmeal-is-ch... (previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35735763 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35735763)