ABSTRACT
The speculations are framed within the unique functions of digital geometry and the mechanical procedures and idiosyncrasies of the visioning systems that deploy it to view a world. To engage with the architecture of the contemporary city is to engage with the relationship between its built surfaces and the viewing technologies that preside over them. The realignment of architectural tools and techniques with the challenges and opportunities presented by digital technology has inevitable disciplinary implications. The foregrounding of the city's qualitative properties also presents an entirely new formal language to the discipline. Yet disciplinary realignment means that the role and identity of the architect must also be interrogated and shift in accordance with the new scopic regime of the digital. In sum, the capacity of these new tools and techniques to release the qualitative and reinforce the ambiguous endows the architect with new agency.
