Architectural Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerber, Andri.

Contributor:

Gerber, Andri, editor.

Atalay Franck, Oya, editor.

Mieskes, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2025.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How will AI transform architecture?How can we conceptualize AI in the context of architecture?The contributors to this volume discuss different positions to understand the fundamental shift provoked by AI and contextualize this shift in forms of operational theories and performative uses of the medium.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Part 1: Introduction

Architectural Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

The surface of depth

Architectural intelligence

Desperately seeking theory

Structure of the book

Part 2: Fundamentals

AI for Architects

AI Creativity and Chance Operations

Neural networks and machine learning

Aesthetic AI projects based on image and facial recognition programs

Compilative AI art projects

Evaluation and analysis

Conclusion

The Simulation of Intelligence and Creativity: On the Foundations of Machine Learning

Introduction

Human Thought: The Use of Concepts as Involving Reason and Creativity

The Simulation of Conceptual Activity by Deep Neural Networks

A Challenge for Our Times: To Distinguish between Use and Abuse of Simulated Thought

Baking and Building: Reflections on Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

Part 3: Interviews

The Classical Tradition of Artificial Intelligence

Learning from Images

Part 4: Essays

A: Data

What can a Multidimensional Language Model Tell Us about Architecture?

Why look at language in architecture?

Word Embeddings

Data

The Concept of Spatiality in Architectural Magazines

Outlook

From Data‐Driven to Design‐Informed: A Socio‐Technical Dialogue on AI, Context, and Design Futures

Navigating Uniform Protocols Amid Local Complexities: Standardization or Context?

Data as a Socio‐Technical Lifeline: Keeping Designers in the Loop

Data Fusion and Intelligent Workflows: Toward Complex Design Scenarios

Case Spotlights: Data in Action

A The Informed Design Platform: Multi‐Modal Data for Urban Public Spaces

B Measuring Human Experience in the Built Environment

C Optimizing Pedestrian Comfort in Transit‐Oriented Walkways

Beyond Machine Perception: AI Urban Imagination.

Introduction

The Closure of Urban Imagination

Surplus Data and Urban Knowing

Clip and the City: Uncovering Urban Cultural Layers

World Gist: Mapping the Global Urban Imagination

The City in a Bottle: Simulating Urban Assemblages

The Triple Abstraction in AI's understanding of the City

The Paradox of AI's Urban Knowledge

New Urban Possibilities

Conclusion: Beyond the Digital Closure of Urban Imagination

B: Media and Representation

Projections: On the Design Process in AI Architecture

AI and architecture: Innovation and invariance

Beyond visual mimicry: The technical logic of AI

Projections: How to explore the interval

Open Media and Experimental Intelligence

Black Box: Legacy and Reductionism

Media of Making Sensible: If We Open Our Brains, We Do Not Find Images

Performativity and Reachability

The Regulative Role of Experimental Users

Relational Spaces and Practices

Practicing Theory as Interference and Divergence

C: Practice

Architectural Practice and Artificial Intelligence

Beyond Disruption: Digital Intelligence and Human Intuition in Architectural Practice

Introduction: Framing the One‐Year AI Research Project

Digital Transformation &amp

Readiness for AI

LLMs: Accessibility, Personalization, and Automation

Generative Design Process with AI

AI as an Evolution, not a Disruption

Key Findings and Next Steps

The Generative AI Paradigm: Architectural Praxis Reshaped?

Current State

Limitations

Towards Architectural Intelligence?

Final Thoughts

D: Teaching in times of AI

The Power of Interpretation: A Reflection on the Application of Parametric Programs and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Teaching

How does architecture relate to technology?.

The value of playing, not learning

Interpretation and analogy

Generica and curation

AI Architecture Studio Without Architects

Then: Paperless Studios

Now: Codeless Studios

Pedagogical Inversion: An Outside‐In Architecture Studio

Neural Tectonics: An AI‑Native Architectural Language

Annex

Authors

Image Copyrights.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

3-8394-3069-0

9783839430699