response: Julio Bermudez

	The topics/issues you described are all important and relevant for discussion. I
	personally don't have much to add unless we get into the details, which is where
	the conversation will really get interesting.
		
	Important things to consider are the general directions of computing in
	architecture, which I (and others) see as three-fold:

   1.	BIM (Building Information Modeling), i.e., the next generation of "CAD"
	allowing for full data-base knowledge encoding of building design, construction
	and maintenance ... Allowing from CAM/digital fabrication, to design process
	integration to construction budgeting and assembly to post-construction
	maintenance
   2. 	Virtual environment design: including data displays, internet based
	spaces, videogame, interactive 3D films, and open cyberspace theoretical
	constructs
   3. 	Smart Buildings: sensor-based architecture capable of responding in real
	time to various inputs (weather, users, utilities, gadgets, etc.)
	
	Issues of knowledge production, pedagogy development, technology
	creation/usage as well as implementation/purchasing/maintenance, visionary
	curriculum, inter-disciplinarily, degree programs, personnel, budgeting and
	administration, research and professional projects, academic/university
	pressures, etc. are all important things to discuss in the larger futures
	horizon scope.
	
	I hope this provides some of my take on this topic
	
	Julio Bermudez,
        The University of Utah, USA