parametricism/pæɹəˈmɛtɹɪsɪzm̩/EtymologyFrom parametric + -ism, coined in 2008 by Patrik Schumacher.nounAn avant-garde, computer-aided style of architecture and urban planning in which (the functions of) spaces are considered parametrically variable (dynamic) rather than static.“The question of Parametricism's “hegemony” has been a subject of lively debate among architects, who disagree over whether its design language—which is based on the scripting of variable stems though digital algorithms—may be considered a style whose signature aspects would be an undulating topographical field composed of modular geometric elements, or whether the digital modelling capacities that”