Strategic Plan for Inform. Architecture Program Architectural practice has been influenced dramatically by the introduction of computers. This influence is not limited to the production of working drawings and construction documents, but it also affects the ways architects think, visualize and present their work.
Most firms currently use digital design media to improve productivity.
However, a growing number of others, including several renowned architects, use computers as a means to conceptualize, communicate and represent their projects. Other work involves using computers to better integrate technological issues with design, and to expand the technology of construction itself, expanding the architect's design vocabulary. The building profession as a whole is moving toward increasing reliance on electronic information, as are other industries. Thus the computer is becoming both a necessary means for doing business, as well as a significant medium allowing various types of innovation. The program will engage computing technology on an ever-increasing basis.