Computational Methods in Architecture from theories to architectural design

Computational Methods in Architecture. From theories to architectural design. Almost thirty years have passed since the mid-eighties, when the digital has burst into architectural design and production. From the initial experiments and theoretical enthusiasms, practiced in geographical, political and cultural different contexts where traditionally there was a strong relationship between design, technology, administrative institutions and industries, we have achieved some widespread and standardized results in software industry, processing, production, profession, spanning from experimental computational applications to Building Information Modeling. What will be the next conceptual steps and tools and in which specific fields it seems that the use of Computational Design be strengthened? This paper tries to reassemble the wires between the experimenters' generation, their earliest disciples strongly engaged with theoretical works, and the awake of the historians on the digital and the computation design in architecture