Scientific and technological progress sometimes leads to the disappearance of professions. Fortunately, this did not happen to architects. After developing programs for creating drawings, they managed to significantly reduce their desktops and the time of creating projects. The world's most popular construction application AutoCAD was released in 1982, and by 1994, 750 training centers in the world had used it.
Now architects do not have to bother with tons of wide format paper. All pencils, erasers and precision measuring instruments are located on the computer. Below are rare shots that show how you had to create floor plans before. The construction companies worked entire workshops of design engineers.