MATERIA ARQUITECTURA JOURNAL N°13: Technology: Digital Material

In the early 1990s, the use of digital technologies in architecture became popular, and some warned of the risks of the excessive virtualization of architecture and the emergence of a ‘cyberspace’ detached from materiality, construction, mass or gravity. Ubiquitous digital images rendering intangible spaces questioned the material character of architecture, a phenomenon that John Frazer[1] called a ‘new architecture of process that transcends physicality and achieves ephemeralization’.