Drawing and Machine: the application of the digital in Architecture and Urbanism

Information Technologies advances applied in Architecture are changing not only the expression, representation and development of architecture projects, but also the approaching to architecture complexity, turning it into a project instrument. Those advances requires successive adaptations, sometimes precipitated and overrun by the visual results they produce. That is why its use in the formative stage should take into account a reflexion about its implications accompanying its quick changes: new concepts, terminologies, information handling at different scales and the chance of big data processing, not easy affordable using non-digital methods. In this context, the role of the drawing translation into its digital version become more complex in sintony with the current architecture requirements.