| authors |
Asanowicz, Aleksander |
| year |
1997 |
| title |
Computer - Tool vs. Medium |
| source |
Challenges of the Future [15th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 0-9523687-3-0] Vienna (Austria) 17-20 September 1997 |
| doi |
https://doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.1997.x.b2e
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| summary |
We have arrived an important juncture in the history of computing in our profession: This history is long
enough to reveal clear trends in the use of computing, but not long to institutionalize them. As computers
peremate every area of architecture - from design and construction documents to project administration
and site supervision - can “virtual practice” be far behind? In the old days, there were basically two ways
of architects working. Under stress. Or under lots more stress. Over time, someone forwarded the radical
motion that the job could be easier, you could actually get more work done. Architects still have been
looking for ways to produce more work in less time. They need a more productive work environment. The
ideal environment would integrate man and machine (computer) in total harmony. As more and more
architects and firms invest more and more time, money, and effort into particular ways of using
computers, these practices will become resistant to change. Now is the time to decide if computing is
developing the way we think it should. Enabled and vastly accelerated by technology, and driven by
imperatives for cost efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness, work in the design sector is changing in
every respect. It is stands to reason that architects must change too - on every level - not only by
expanding the scope of their design concerns, but by altering design process. Very often we can read,
that the recent new technologies, the availability of computers and software, imply that use of CAAD
software in design office is growing enormously and computers really have changed the production of
contract documents in architectural offices. |
| keywords |
Computers, CAAD, Cyberreal, Design, Interactive, Medium, Sketches, Tools, Virtual Reality |
| series |
eCAADe |
| email |
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| more |
http://info.tuwien.ac.at/ecaade/proc/asan/asanowic.htm |
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