Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the benefits and drawbacks of using computers. Most of the advantages of computers derive from their being able to carry out long sequences of well-defined operations at high speed. The operations are elementary, but millions of them can be executed in a single second and give the net impression of sophisticated behavior. At the most straightforward level, this high speed can be harnessed to carry out complex calculations in a short time with great accuracy. Computers are not an unmixed blessing. They are unsuited, or not well suited, to certain kinds of problems and they inevitably introduce difficulties of their own. The nature of the problem, or of the building or its scale, might preclude the efficient use of computers. Computers may impose extra and unfamiliar duties upon the architect that may disrupt traditional ways of working.

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