Architecture as a profession is surprisingly adaptable. When computerisation arrived on the scene more than 30 years ago, it didn’t have to force its way across the drawbridge of a highly defensive industry. Digital tools of the trade, like other revolutionary changes to how we work, were welcomed as a means to an end – and not as an end in themselves.

The digitisation of architecture and design in recent years has permeated every aspect of its practice. To design for building resilience, net zero carbon – both operational and embodied – assembly, disassembly, longevity and changing purposes, we have had to embrace it.