Digital architecture beyond computers: fragments of a cultural history of computational design

'Digital Architecture Beyond Computers' explores the deep history of digital architecture, tracing design concepts as far back as the Renaissance and connecting them with the latest software used by designers today.

It develops a critical account of how the tools and techniques of digital design have emerged, and allows designers to deepen their understanding of the digital tools they use every day.

What aesthetic, spatial, and philosophical concepts converge within the digital tools architects employ?

What is their history? And what kinds of techniques and designs have they given rise to?