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With the close relationship between the idea of Postmodernism and the development of architectural and digital technology, the contemporary architectural scene began to require a new design process. In this context, some contemporary architects called 'the digital architect' use computer algorism as a mode of thinking about architecture named 'digital design process' for making more complex and peculiar architectural form. In addition to such a general phenomenon of digital design process, we can find another meaning of it, the role of architect's schema, in point of that all of architectural design process must start from the architect's own consciousness. In other word, architect's schema has an important role not only in traditional architectural design process, but also in digital design process.
Architectural schema in design process is a lump of conceptual idea constituted with transcendental elements, intuition, image, thinking, philosophy, theory, and etc. in architect's consciousness. Diagram is a kind of media, which transforms architectural schema to real architectural form. It is different from the existing definition of diagram, and acts as a generator reflecting the function of computer algorism and conceptual schema. Therefore, it can make various architectural forms along with the changing of architect's schema and application of computer algorism in design process. That is why we call it as 'the generative diagram'.