Artificial intelligence (AI) applications in architectural design have achieved a critical mass and exploded into the mainstream of architectural imaginations. From practical applications in design and constructionto the implications for architectural theory to a plethora of novel tools for accelerated morphological studies, what has become clear is that the discipline is passing a threshold that fundamentally changes architecture as a whole. However, the most radical change is the interrogation and novel discussion of authorship and agency in design ecologies driven by synthetic imaginations. What does it mean for authorship when more than 50 per cent of the content is generated by a nonhuman player? This issue seems more pressing than ever. In a world that is being transformed by AI on a daily basis, what is the role of the sole genius, and designers, artists and architects? This AD dives deep into current discussions about the human position in architectural design, which is increasingly entangled in an AI-driven design context.
Contributors: Cesare Battelli, Phil Bernstein, Mario Carpo, Benjamin Ennemoser and Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl, Sarah Fox, Wanyu He, Andrew Kudless, Ryan Vincent Manning, Sandra Manninger, Kyle Steinfeld, Andrew Witt, and Michael Young.
Table of Contents
Introduction
About the Guest-Editor 5
Matias del Campo
The Wicked, the Tamed and the Transformative Nature of Artificial Intelligence 6
Matias del Campo
Every Dataset is a Canon 14
Mario Carpo
Everything Can Be an Author: Rethinking Agency in the Age of Artificial Intelligence 20
Matias del Campo
Enchantment and the Gimmick: Pleasure and Doubt in AI Image Aesthetics 30
Michael Young
'Hey ChatGPT, Finish This Building ...': A Worker-Led AI Agenda for the Construction Industry 38
Sarah Fox
AI and Synaesthetic Space: Architecture from Hybrid Visions of Intelligent Machines 46
Cesare Battelli
An A(i)lien Embassy: AI and Interspecies Communication 54
Andrew Witt
Art Beyond Mechanical Reproduction: In Conversation with AI Artist Mario Klingemann 62
Matias del Campo
Signs, Signals and Signifiers: The Doghouse and the Semiotics of AI 70
Sandra Manninger
This Is Not a Building: Architecting the Spectrality of the Latent Space 78
Benjamin Ennemoser and Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl
Stop Making Sense: Complexity and Contradiction in AI and Architecture 86
Andrew Kudless
Tech Limited: AI is AI 94
Ryan Vincent Manning
Machine Hands on Flaws to Machine: The Surprising Sources of Biases in Machine Learning Models 102
Kyle Steinfeld
AI-Generated Content: From Conception to Communal Engagement 110
Wanyu He
Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in Architecture 118
Phil Bernstein
From Another Perspective. Visceral Pleasures: The Embodied Human Mind 128
Neil Spiller
Contributors 134
