For so long serious discourse about the potential of these technologies has operated within the realms of visionary speculation, as thought it was a product of science fiction. Today the world is in progress of digitalization, touching our everyday lives. Bill Gates has predicted that the present decade will be recognised as ‘The Digital Decade’, its impact will have been so far-reaching that impossible any individual of human existence will remain untouched by it. Douglas Rushkoff describes digital revolution in terms of a ‘renaissance’. It more proper than a ‘revolution’, the process rethinks the ways in which we experience our realities.

Within the discipline of architecture the effect of this new phenomenon has been especially marked. For some time now many architects have been researching the potential of the digital domain. While new technology is turning media into a no-boundary zone we know as cyberspace, architectural form is also coming to question its orthodox definitions. Architecture, according to this view point of digital definition, is a question of building, and forms developed on the computer screen are just fantasies if they do not possibly realize to the real world. Eventually the true volume of work produced in this mode will bring about a new paradigm to rethink what is architecture. But the exception goes to the buildings of major significance, such as Jorn Utzon’s Sydney Opera House or Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, which has been completed that the experimental work of the avant-garde is known by the general public. This project was not only born from the digital, but it was also realized with the digital media.

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