Continuing our parametricism series , we look at the futuristic Yokohama International Port Terminal designed by Foreign Office Architects , which was one of the first high-profile parametric buildings.

Opened in 2002, Yokohama International Port Terminal was designed by Foreign Office Architects (FOA) at a time when computational design was gaining increasing prominence.

Yokohama International Port Terminal was designed by FOA. Photo by Satoru Mishima

The project was the first building designed by FOA, which was led by architects Farshid Moussavi and Alejandro Zaera-Polo .

Speaking to Dezeen, Moussavi described the project as a "manifesto" that combined what they had learned about architecture with how digital tools could be used within the design process.

"[It was a] manifesto of what we believed," she said.…