Parametric Architecture and Perception. Luigi Moretti’s Prophecy About the Role of Digital Representation

The research starts from the conceptualization of Parametric Architecture by the great master of Italian rationalism Luigi Moretti, conceived even before the war in collaboration with Italian mathematician Bruno de Finetti and presented at the XII Milan Triennale in 1960. Through algebraic formulas, the prophecy about the value of the digital for design animates operational research on urban planning and architecture, which connects perception to the morphogenesis of stadiums and spaces of the spectacle. Recent achievements in computational design and AI take up semantically and operationally the Morettian concepts of parametric architecture, and specifically the theme of perception takes on a key role in defining the quality of the space of a place like the stadium, starting from its genesis, from the performance it has to offer. Generative algorithms and digital genetic optimizations transform the mathematical and geometric logics of interpreting the mechanism of perception into signs, thus discovering new models of soccer stadiums, a paradigm of the application of computational design and augmented intelligence of generative representation for upcoming architectures.