Sunday, January 25, 2009

Computing in Architectural Design

In today's ever-evolving world of technology, we want everything faster (and in a higher resolution)and the same can be said of the way we want to receive our information. Design is not immune to the pull of technology. Designers now possess the ability to create a computer generated view of their designs, and literally walk a client through it.

Computer aided design allows designers the ability to send information faster as well. One can simply save a file and email it around the world, and if something is wrong, fix it and get it back to them by the end of the day. I think that computer aided design has given us as designers amazing new tools to illustrate and improve our designs. While hand rendering is still a very useful skill to have, the use of new technology has advanced us, and continues every year with new programs, and new updates to old ones. AutoCAD alone has been updated countless times since it's debut, and continues to add more features and become more user friendly.

In the future, I feel like the program quality will be exponentially better, and hand rendering will be obsolete which makes learning the programs available now of the utmost importance.

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