Some architects use design processes that conceive each architecture as a model to be optimized with tools borrowed from various disciplines. Therefore, modelling in architecture may assume the role of an interpretative tool for complex phenomena, capable of guiding a design towards its best possible configuration. Today, we can work with discrete data with extreme efficiency. Consequently, we can also create models in architectural design with a new approach that aims to contain and generate large amounts of information. It is precisely by analyzing that information, with various tools of applied mathematics and through the strength of correlation, that modelling may interpret complex phenomena. In both approaches, the search for optimization may shape the purpose of modelling in architectural design. This contribution addresses the evolution and role of optimization in architectural design with an interdisciplinary approach.

一些架构师使用设计流程，将每个架构视为一个模型，并使用从各个学科借来的工具进行优化。因此，建筑建模可以承担复杂现象的解释工具的角色，能够引导设计走向其最佳可能的配置。今天，我们可以以极高的效率处理离散数据。因此，我们还可以使用旨在包含和生成大量信息的新方法在建筑设计中创建模型。正是通过使用各种应用数学工具并通过相关性的强度分析这些信息，建模才能解释复杂的现象。在这两种方法中，对优化的搜索可能会影响建筑设计建模的目的。