Elie Haddad Transformations in Digital Architecture The emergence of a ‘new wave’ in architecture infused by the digital revolution has an interesting history. One of its early promoters was Greg Lynn, a student of Peter Eisenman. Lynn started his experiments at the end of the 1990’s, aimed at the exploration of new formal geometries, building on Eisenman’s post-structuralism, towards a “post-post-structuralism”. Lynn’s earliest flirtations with the digital associated it with the concept of the “fold”. In his discourse he proceeded from a reflection on Palladian Classicism to a discussion of D’Arcy Thompson’s study on the growth of natural organisms, thereby suggesting a historical continuity, something that would be later taken up by Patrick Schumacher. Lynn’s approach towards the “organic” appears in retrospect like an intentional effort to demarcate himself from Eisenman and to chart a new direction for the emerging architecture that would succeed in emancipating it from its static condition, to assume a dynamic condition characteristic of all living organisms. The new tendency was anchored on the philosophical scaffolding of Gilles Deleuze, whose famous work on Leibniz bore the tile The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque. Deleuze’s reference to the Baroque was of course related to a historical period, and not to an architectural style per se. But the association with the Baroque added to the metaphor of the ‘fold’ served well to veer architectural practice away from both the post-modernist nostalgia of the 80’s as well as the convoluted deconstructive discourse of the 90’s, towards a more conducive paradigm whereby buildings would be transformed into a complex of manifolded layers, simulating a higher level of reality, or what we can define after Baudrillard as a hyperreality. It is interesting to note, in parallel, that this major paradigm-shift was well disseminated in the professional arena, especially through two major journals: Architectural Design and Architectural Review, as well some of the elite schools like the AA in London and Columbia in New York. This was alluded to in the special issue of AD, guest edited by Patrick Schumacher, and titled Parametricism 2.0, which came out with the explicit objective of resuscitating a declining interest in the new movement. Schumacher confessed: