HARDWARE, SOFTWARE AND THE DIGITAL REVOLUTION: AN OVERVIEW

In the context of the digital revolution, the architect, the urbanist, the designers are no more allowed in operating as simple users: none of the traditional professions can keep unaltered the structure and behaviours from the past. If the professional wants to be included in the transformation, there is no way to escape the rethinking of teams, references, strategies. If not, the world will go on nonetheless this choice, but with the risk of losing precious opportunities. So, as promoters, the architects are members of teams that should exploit the possibility offered by different tools, both on the front of gathering data, analysing them, and proposing new solutions that hopefully will be tuned with the new reality. A critical analysis of the Hardware and software tools that offer the new possibility of knowledge and functioning may allow some reflecting on the new level of skills required for appropriate intervention on buildings and new urban assets in the middle of the digital revolution. Following it will be defined a specific and basic taxonomy for the main digital survey tools and the other significant hardware products allowing to integrate and enhance the architectural and urban design and restoration/regeneration scenarios as well as their state of implementation in the general architectural workflows.