This project by Mark Foster Gage — National Science and Innovation Centre of Lithuania — employs complexity as a means of creating buildings whose aesthetic presence impacts the user without imposing a singular or authoritarian reading. Renderings courtesy Mark Foster Gage Architects.

This project by Mark Foster Gage — House on Ile Rene-Levasseur — employs complexity as a means of creating buildings whose aesthetic presence impacts the user without imposing a singular or authoritarian reading. Renderings courtesy Mark Foster Gage Architects.

The Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, by Zaha Hadid Architects is a performing arts and cultural facility that breaks from the country’s Soviet-era built environment with its foward-looking form. A prime example of Schumacher’s Parametricism, here complexity and layering are employed to inform usage, facilitate circulation, and bring people together. Photos by Hufton+Crow.

The Heydar Aliyev Centre in Baku, Azerbaijan, by Zaha Hadid Architects is a performing arts and cultural facility that breaks from the country’s Soviet-era built environment with its foward-looking form. A prime example of Schumacher’s Parametricism, here complexity and layering are employed to inform usage, facilitate circulation, and bring people together. Photos by Hufton+Crow.