Architects and Materials

One set of tools that has become predominant in the recent decades is the series of digital drawing and modelling software that today more than anything else defines the architect’s workflow. Digital drawing has become the keystone throughout the process from early sketching to building realisation. One of the reasons the digital drawing has become essential is clearly because of the level of interchange and versatility it provides. However, this is also where much capacity is still left unexplored and unused. Digital material has enormous potential to intermingle with the world, in which we live and for which architecture is created. Through the interface of digital drawing, data can feed into digital production, linking the architect directly to the materials. Drawing can morph directly into materialisation instead of representation.