A Primitive Parametric

Contemporary research on the human genome has directly influenced new biological metaphors for architectural design. The architectural historian Martin Bressani has summarized this tendency as a new form of “Architectural Biology,” which the critcs Reinhold Martin and Manuel Delanda have related to historical paradigms of architectural organicism. 1 The intent of this paper is to discuss the biological metaphors that translate the generative principles of genomics into new strategies for architectural design.