It is absolutely amazing to me how much technology has developed in the past few decades. It says a lot that a computer took up 1,000 sq. ft. and today it can be held in the palm of your hand. Something that I did not know was that the advance in computer-aided design was made possible by innovative Universities that took the initiative to build and grow. You might think that because of this, the technology might be used in schools first instead of architectural firms. This makes me think that we, as interior architectural students can really do something to help the community such as our bus shelter last semester, and possibly the design community as a whole.
The amenities that technology provides by creating images to reflect our ideas and designs are enormous. At this day in age, the sky is the limit in design because we have endless opportunities in that we have computers to do the math for us. As a new comer to this technology, I am a little overwhelmed with all of the things these software such as CAD can do. Looking back, in the development process of these programs, I wonder why architectural firms took the time to use these programs when it seemed like it would have taken just as much or less time for them to hand-draft the images. The computers were very slow at that time and the drawings looked fairly simple.
Computer generated images produce high quality renderings that exemplify your design very well. However, I do not believe that these technologies should be used in the design process. Technology, to me, takes away creative thinking and doesn’t let the mind release innovative ideas. First, ideas must be sketched and drawn out over many iterations and the final product should be transferred into a form of technology.
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