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Gerhard Schmitt, Information Architecture Basics of CAAD and its future, Birkhäuser 1999
e Information Architecture, Basi e Fuuro del Caad,Testo&Immagine, Torino 1998

With increasing intensity, CAAD (Computer Aided Architectural Design) is determining the daily work of today's architectural offices. Computers allow complex designs to be visualised and altered with great speed and accuracy; three-dimensional models can be created with simulation and animation possibilities, and links to the World Wide Web provide access to a flow of information. The author develops his thesis that these aspects do not just enable the creative process to be optimised in a quantitative sense but also qualitatively. Alongside the spatial and time dimensions, the new electronic possibilities provide a fifth dimension in architecture.

Gerhard Schmitt (born 1953) studied at Munich and Berkeley and has been Professor at the ETH, in Zürich since 1988.

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