Architecture is a cultural artifact of humanity that has progressed alongside with the development of human civilization.Architectural research,although motivated by practical necessity,has become an essential part of human knowledge and innovation.The impact of digital technology in the 21st century has changed the ontology of architectural research.On its 20th anniversary,the Association of Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) becomes the oldest digital architectural research organization in the region and continues to be a source of academic innovation.This special issue is an attempt to align the state-of-the-art computational architectural findings in CAADRIA with the findings published in Frontiers of Architectural Research (FoAR).