Read anything by Robert Aish.

Also look at Antoine Picon's book on digital culture, Mario Carpo's book 'The Alphabet and the Algorithm" and Bob Sheil's collection "Manufacturing the Bespoke."

In truth, there's no one answer, you need to need to negotiate computational and material practices in your own head/software/hardware space as an individual.

But whats your personal experience

At the firm where i work they use me for private projects after the design has been done . We are still making changes on this one as well, it is a 10k sqft house I modeled it in revit and rendered it in 3ds max, so it can be flexible.

Tools used:

Autocad

Autocad architecture

Revit

sketch up

3ds max

Samridh,

I've answered the question above. My experience with software, hardware and material is driven by the designers and historians listed above, and will differ for yours. 

In looking at your dissertation brief (thesis?), I cannot understand the relevance of my workflow to your desired outcomes. If you are trying construct a survey, I suggest that you use an online survey tool, and craft a set of questions that will provide you with the data that you are looking for. If you need help crafting the survey look at Inquiry by Design by John Zeisel.

People sure do love asking other people to do their homework.

your research question is so broad and ambiguous.  it has no specificity to it at all.  you could find the answer to your questions in a two minute google search.  also, what is the post digital revolution?  totally meaningless jargon.  revise and resubmit.  

Design in your head or on paper, produce with software. It hasn't changed and won't change.

Even if that means designing algorithms and processes... design still happens independent of software.

Thanks marc and archanonymous. 

And rob the question may seem ambigous but the research methodology i am adopting is leading answer in a proper direction. 

But after your review I think i should develop on the question too. and thanks

I am always thrown off by movies and old photographs of offices pre-80's that have no computers on the desk. What were they doing with themselves? 

I've been working in the architecture / urban design field for 12ish years. What I witness is an insatiable need for more information, faster. When software comes up with a solution to a problem the response is always 'yea, but can it do the NEXT thing?'

We build all our models in Revit. From there we put it into Lumion - https://lumion3d.com/ - which mimics a video game, and we tour the client through the space. Any little error in the model is criticized even if it isn't visible in the final construction documents and has no effect on the contractor's work. I specify all my materials through Spec.Ninja - http://spec.ninja - simply because it's fast and the client might want changes immediately. 

We are looking at virtual reality options so clients can be completely immersed in the project. Once we begin VR, it will likely further complicate my work.