Codes in Architecture

Abstract

The design, development and writing software for computers has transformed from a niche technology into a means of production. Although computation, information technologies, and digitality have become part of the architectural design process, they are not considered as part of a code itself. By looking into history it can be shown that in architecture codes are already present in different forms. The codes found are used to mark the related periods and to point towards a future form of architectural code with computation involved.