Digital design realities and futures : educating architectural scientist

Abstract

In the recent years, qualitative developments in the architectural profession are affecting substantively all facets of design praxis. The way how professional relationships, construction techniques, buildings- materials, design instruments and ways of working are changing is often faster than an educational system can react to. Hereby digital instruments are often the driving forces that facilitate change in praxis and the understanding of architectural education. Computational instruments are by far no longer basic recording and drawing media but progressive partner in design that allow the power of computational logic to be applied to design. The evolution of contemporary digital architecture facilitated by complex software and mostly online networked communications as well as data mining capabilities are among several technological and cultural developments that are driving architectural education to novel directions.