In “Between Surface and Substance” Surface Consciousness, Mark Burry explores the relationship of form making, parametric creation, and artistic import. The article makes me consider the value of designing through digitally derived permutations of form. Is it just form making for the sake of making previously unseen forms. I think it some cases this has become the modus operandi for designers.

This misuse and misunderstanding of how digital technology is maybe inevitable. It might be akin to architects using books on classical architecture simply as a kit parts by which they could "design" a building. In more mindful hands, however, it seems that this new way of thinking about form may allow the architect to derive spaces, form, and experiences, that could not have been imagined. The craft is, as it always was, to control the variables and constraints that guide the design.