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The influence of information technology on the field of architecture can be found in the rapid adoption of information-centric models from the earliest design stage through the operations of the building. Today, buildings produce a vast array of data that can be collected and mined to uncover patterns of behavior that translate into useful information and can be recorded and managed through the compu-tational model of the building. The current utilization of the information model is both for predictive simulation in the design stage and operational analysis after the building is occupied. In the design stage, there is a vast amount of knowledge contributing to an array of decisions, from traditional sources of transdisciplinary collaboration and increasingly from nontraditional sources such as the sciences, infor-mation technologies, and mathematics through the common computational platform of the building information model (BIM). The current form of BIM focuses more on the end result rather than embed-ding the knowledge exchanged during the design process. The increasing computational capacity allows for this knowledge to be embedded into the model to promote informed decisions about how future adjustments to the building will affect its performance measured against the context of the original design intentions. The information model simultaneously discusses the form, its formation, and the information that brought the building to life.
