AI is already part of our lives even though we might not realise it. It is in our phones, filtering spam, identifying Facebook friends, and classifying our images on Instagram. It is in our homes in the form of Siri, Alexa and other AI assistants. It is in our cars and our planes. AI is literally everywhere. Artworks generated by AI have won international prizes, and have been sold at auction. But what does AI mean for the world of design?
This issue of AD explores the nature of AI, and considers its potential for architecture. But this is no idle speculation. Architects have already started using AI for architectural design and fabrication. Yet - astonishingly - there has been almost no debate about AI within the discipline of architecture so far. Surely, nothing can be more important for the profession of architecture right now. The issue looks at all aspects of AI: its potential to assist architects in designing buildings so that it becomes a form of ‘augmented intelligence’; its capacity to design buildings on its own; and whether AI might open up an extraordinary new chapter in architectural design.
Contributors: Refik Anadol; Daniel Bolojan; Alexa Carlson; Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick; Gabriel Esquivel, Jean Jaminet and Shane Bugni; Behnaz Farahi; Theodoros Galanos and Angelos Chronis; Eduard Haiman; Wanyu He; Damjan Jovanovic and Lidija Kljakovic; Immanuel Koh; Maria Kuptsova; Sandra Manninger; Lev Manovich; Achim Menges and Thomas Wortmann; Wolf dPrix, Karolin Schmidbaur and Efilena Baseta; M Casey Rehm; and Hao Zheng and Masoud Akbarzadeh.
Featured architects: Alisa Andrasek, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Lifeforms.io, Nonstandardstudio,SPAN, Kyle Steinfeld, Studio Kinch and Xkool Technology.
Table of Contents
About the 5
Guest-Editors
Matias del Campo and Neil Leach
Introduction 6
Can Machines Hallucinate Architecture?
AI as Design Method
Matias del Campo and Neil Leach
The Legacy Sketch 14
Machine
From Artificial to Architectural Intelligence
WolfdPrix, Karolin Schmidbaur, Daniel Bolojan and Efilena Baseta
Creative AI 22
Augmenting Design Potency
Daniel Bolojan
Space in the Mind of a Machine 28
Immersive Narratives
Refik Anadol
Strange, But Familiar Enough 38
The Design Ecology of Neural Architecture
Matias del Campo and Sandra Manninger
When Robots Dream 46
In Conversation with Alexandra Carlson
Matias del Campo
Augmenting 54
Digital Nature
Generative Art as a Constructive Feedback Loop
Sofia Crespo and Feileacan McCormick
AI and Myths of Creativity 60
Lev Manovich
Architectural 66
Hallucinations
What Can AI Tell Us About the Mind of an Architect?
Neil Leach
AI-Controlled 72
Robot Masks
Resisting Patriarchal Oppression
Behnaz Farahi
Assembled Worlds 80
New Campo Marzio - Piranesi in the Age of AI
M Casey Rehm and Damjan Jovanovic
Architectural 86
Plasticity
The Aesthetics of Neural Sampling
Immanuel Koh
Synthesising Artificial 94
Intelligence and Physical Performance
Achim Menges and Thomas Wortmann
Sequential Masterplanning 100
Using Urban-GANs
Wanyu He
Time for Change - 108
The InFraRed Revolution
How AI-driven Tools can Reinvent Design for Everyone
Theodoros Galanos and Angelos Chronis
Cyborganic Living 116
Maria Kuptsova
Unleashing New Creativities 122
Matias del Campo and Neil Leach
Endlessskyscraper 124
Eduard Haiman
The Serlio Code 126
Gabriel Esquivel, Jean Jaminet and Shane Bugni
Cloud Pergola 128
Alisa Andrasek
Dream Estate 130
Damjan Jovanovic and Lidija Kljakovic
The Dragonfly Wing Project 132
Hao Zheng and Masoud Akbarzadeh
Artificial Relief 134
Kyle Steinfeld
From Another Perspective 136
Architectural Intelligence
Colloquy of Mobiles Redux
Neil Spiller
