In addition to the ease of construction, BIM has opened opportunities for very contemporary design practices. Architecture was based primarily on ancient precedents throughout time. Until the early part of the twentieth century, it was very uncommon to see a high-end building that didn’t have some sort of classical reference. This all changed with the invention and accessibility of steel at the end of the 19th century. In Germany and France at about the same time as this, two revolutionary schools, Le Ecole, and Bauhaus were taking notice of the structural capabilities of steel and concrete and designing buildings that attempted to embrace their uniqueness. Their influence created the modernism movement. Modernism was a reinvention of architecture. Le Corbusier, often called the father of modern architecture, states in his book Towards a new Architecture that the most important day of his life was looking up one morning in 1924 and seeing the first airplane that he had ever seen before. In the plane, he saw something entirely functional, an entity that truly embraced what it was and wanted to be. He writes: “The airplane is the product of close selection. The lesson of the airplane lies in the logic which governed the statement of the problem and its realization.” This concept in collaboration with the new possibilities of form in structure sparked the modernist movement which lasted into the early 1970’s. Modernism re-invented the way we look at architecture today, and it is my belief that the digital realm has sparked something equally as exciting, and perhaps as ultimately influential.