Finally, in the last chapter, the more specific field of information visualisation is illustrated with several specific examples of virtual spaces that are uploaded with various architectural concepts. Furthermore, a VRML-application called VR/search that also has been programmed as part of this work is explained by some of the cyberspace design-principles proposed by the author Michael Benedikt.

I n this last chapter, the attention will be much more focused on one particular aspect of the relationship between cyberspace and architecture. In fact, the field of information visualisation can be seen as an important and rapidly developing scientific field on its own. It is thus certainly not the intention to examine the technical aspects or detailed concepts of the applications based on the insights of cognitive perception and efficient programming thoroughly. In the contrary, it is much more interesting, perhaps, to pursue the future possibilities architecture could create when cyberspace is understood as a primarily informational tool. Furthermore, it is noticed that many authors mention or are convinced that cyberspace also possesses some valid rules and principles which its designers should follow. However, it is remarkable that not many dare or are able to theorise them and write them down. In this view, the principles Michael Benedikt himself has proposed, are considered more then challenging, certainly out of the point of view that a part of the future of architecture is foreseen to be built in the virtual realm.