A critical inquiry into the hyperreality of digitalization in construction

The built environment is literally and metaphorically concrete but its creation from conception through design construction involves many levels of abstraction. This spectrum activities between abstract complex unexplored in it will be shown that a deep understanding this required to make successful buildings modern age digitalization. Abstraction the simplification an entity with degree generalization purpose causality also used promote idealization entity. When abstractions are believed real then there conditions hyperreality. article unpacks nature abstraction three vignettes practice; considering: drawings, project planning building modelling. has been key making growing significance because information themes loss meaning, control perspective show digitalization creating dangerous illusion connection data reality thus problematic can avoided by stronger thinking, more openness about less exaggeration their performance.