On the Brink of a Revolution: Architecture, Technologies, and Investments

Abstract

Architecture as a profession and the understanding of architecture as a field of human creativity and production is now slowly (hopefully) returning to its original mission - to shape physical public space as a communication platform. At the same time, an unprecedented opportunity lies before the field, consisting in making use of the current rapid development of virtual public space, namely virtual (and augmented) reality technologies: this is an opportunity to change the paradigm of architectural design.