Digital technologies have enabled new techniques for the development of architecture, allowing architecture to engage in a feedback loop with its context, absorbing influences and producing concrete effects on its users. Ali Rahim discusses the potential of digital design techniques to affect the wider cultural landscape in profound ways. Rahim teaches at the University of Pennsylvania and is a director at Contemporary Architecture Practice, New York [c-a-p.net], which has established a high profile in futuristic work using digital design and production techniques. Ali Rahim's books include Catalytic Formations: Digital Design and Architecture and two 'Architecture Design' volumes: Contemporary Techniques in Architecture and Contemporary Processes in Architecture. The work of his practice has been exhibited widely and was selected for 10X10_2.