Effects of virtual reality technologies to architectural design process

Architecture has an interdiciplinar structure. Architectural design has different methodologies in design history. Especially since 1980?s virtual reality and since 1990?s information technologies are the tools, that joins to the architectural design process. By the development of computer aided design softwares, the effectiveness of designer in his or her design had increased, mathematical errors had decreased and the efficiency had been maximized. By the end of the twentieth century virtual reality technologies, which have the characteristics of third dimension, interaction and immersion, had been added to computer aided design. In this thesis, virtual reality technologies had been explained and its effects on architectural design process had been examined. Keywords: Architectural Design Process, Computer Aided Design, Virtual Reality, Information Technologies, Virtual Reality Applications in Architectural Design