Matter as Energy What Architects Need to Know

Current advances in technology and cyberspacecapacity coupled with emerging research in science education arecreating new opportunities to enhance architectural education inthe science and technology areas and prepare students foreffective collaboration with other stakeholders in the buildingindustry. The project described in this paper addresses the needfor the improvement of science and technology education andproposes that using advances in digital technology to engagestudents in interactive learning is a necessary step. One of themost promising and youngest applications of computertechnology has been in developing in educational games. Usingnew technologies to re-think the education of the architect in therelation to matter as energy reinforces the role of architecture inscience, technology and mathematics