The issue with parametrisism is that it aestheticizes
architecture – it is to the history of architecture, what fascism was to
politics. Like an anesthesia that, until it loses its efficacy, inebriates one to
the anguish, anxiety and uncertainty of a world vastly unfamiliar, threatening
and increasingly consuming for the intuitive human. The shocking revelation confronted
after the effect wore off – predictably in step with capitalism’s fashion
fetish – is a soberness in which a frightening reality surges back. In classic
form, capitalism defeats itself.
