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The essay examines the meanings of BIM as a design process far the digital simulation of the construction of buildings in a computable way and in order to ensure interoperability and coherence among its different ele­ments. It outlines the recent history of BIM, its interna­tional developments and the changes that it is intro­ducing in ltaly. It debates the main critical issues that come out at the didactic and professional level, from the loss of a uthorship and the crisis of the theoretical model defined by Alberti to the growth of participation levels, up to a first provisional conclusion that points out how the main goal for B.I.M. could be the reduction of the gap between design and contruction: this should hopefully bring architecture closer to its essence of art of making.