ABSTRACT
This century has witnessed great changes in the ways of practicing building design. These changes are breaking away from an evolutionary process of the design activity. In the first place they have affected ways of thinking about design and means of implementing them. Despite all these changes, certain aspects of building design still remain unchanged. From Vitruvius to Le Corbusier, to Sterling, Rogers, Krier and Rossi, the intentions of building design activities remain the same, influencing and improving the built environment (Nornberg-Schulz, 1965). Nevertheless, the paper emphasizes the necessity for building designers to accept the challenge of the computer and information technologies and adapt their practices accordingly. These are new tools offered by these technologies that concern us. Since these technologies are presented to us and intend to develop further and offer more possibilities, it is our duty, as building designers, to play an active role in influencing these developments and to turn them into means appropriate to our ways of thinking as well as our requirements, criteria, norms and standards.
