It is clear that architecture has by now been fundamentally impacted by computation, including its various professional and theoretical permutations - building information modelling (BIM), parametric modelling, and algorithmic and generative approaches. This impact ranges from the radical expansion of the palette of available and realisable forms to the changing practices, shifting roles and reconfiguration of processes made possible by BIM. Beyond its impact on the tools and techniques of architectural practice, it is appropriate to consider the deeper question of how computation has affected the architectural object itself. Have buildings become more essentially computational, and if so, how? Does parametric modelling conducted in the practice of architecture result in a building that is inherently parametric? How does the computational nature of the project persist and become legible in the end product? How can we characterise and quantify this computational content of built form?
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