Computers: Beyond Working Drawings

It is the impact of the new media upon the way we view, model, and evaluate our architectural work that may change architecture and architectural education. Work by the authors and Filez Ozel with their students at the New Jersey School of Architecture has integrated microcomputer graphics into the school's mainstream design curriculum. The mechanical means have been two aging off the shelf software system- one that first creates wire-frame models and another that'paints'them to create solids, as well as draw in a more freehand fashion. However the models were achieved, the results point to profound changes in the way that future architects can view the design proces