The book presents a coherent theory of building information, focusing on its representation and management in the digital era. It addresses issues such as the information explosion and the structure of analogue building representations to propose a parsimonious approach to the deployment and utilization of symbolic digital technologies like BIM.

Alexander Koutamanis has studied architecture at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, and received his PhD from Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands, where he is currently associate professor of computational design.