Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and Artificial Intelligence (Architectural Design)

✍ Scribed by Neil Leach (editor), Matias del Campo (editor)

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 149
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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

Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
About the
Guest-Editors
Introduction: Can Machines Hallucinate Architecture? AI as Design Method
What is AI?
How Does AI Hallucinate Images?
The Future of AI
Learning Machines and Human Ingenuity
Notes
The Legacy Sketch Machine: From Artifi cial to Architectural Intelligence
Coop Himmelb(l)au Universe
The Open Process
Augmentation Versus Automation
Interconnected AI Processes
A Novel AI Universe
Notes
Creative AI: Augmenting Design Potency
FROM EXPERT SYSTEMS TO LEARNING SYSTEMS
MACHINE PERCEPTION
MACHINE CREATIVITY
AGENCY OF DESIGN
NOTES
Space in the Mind: of a Machine Immersive Narratives
Machine Hallucinations
From Latent Being to Latent Cinema
Architecture as Narrative
Notes
Strange, But Familiar Enough: The Design Ecology of Neural Architecture
Defamiliarisation
Machines Hallucinating Architecture
Language as a Design Driver
GraphCNN as a Design Method
Notes
When Robots Dream: In Conversation with Alexandra Carlson
Are Neural Networks Creative?
Complex Biology and Simple Machines
From Analysis to Design Generation
Notes
Augmenting Digital Nature: Generative Art as a Constructive Feedback Loop
Digitised Boundaries of Imagination
The Mundane = Obsolete
AI as an Augmentation of the Mind
Notes
AI and Myths
of Creativity
Art as the Embodiment of Creativity
Art and Realism
Creativity and Global Economy
Dissociating AI and Creativity Concepts
Notes
Architectural Hallucinations: What Can AI Tell Us About the Mind of an Architect?
Predictive Perception
Architecturalisations
In the Mirror of AI
Notes
AI-Controlled Robot Masks: Resisting Patriarchal Oppression
Masking Meaning
Mask Design
Unmasking Emotions
Notes
Assembled Worlds: New Campo Marzio – Piranesi in the Age of AI
The City and its Characters
New Rules of Engagement
Notes
Architectural Plasticity: The Aesthetics of Neural Sampling
Dreaming Neural Plasticity
Sampling Architectural Plasticity
Towards an Architectural Plasticity
Notes
Synthesising Artificial
Intelligence and
Physical Performance
Virtual Design/Builder Agents for Complex Building
Systems
Physical Design/Builder Agents for Distributed
Robotic Construction
Physical Design/Builder Agents for Building
with Natural Heterogeneous Materials
Towards a Novel Material Culture in Architecture
Notes
Sequential
Masterplanning:
Using Urban-GANs
GANs in Urban Planning
Structured Elements Identification
Masterplan Generation in Sequences
Towards Public Participation
Note
Time for Change – The InFraRed Revolution: How AI-driven Tools can Reinvent Design for Everyone
Time and Design Practice
The Intersection Between AI and Design
A Step Forward: From Design Tools to Design
Intelligence
Notes
Cyborganic Living
SYNTHETIC FORMS OF INTELLIGENCE
IMPLEMENTATION OF SYNTHETIC INTELLIGENCE
INTO DESIGN PROTOCOLS
Notes
Unleashing New Creativities
Notes
Endlessskyscraper
Seamless and Continuous
Field Architecture
The Aesthetics of Blended Perception
Notes
The Serlio Code
Serlio Encoded
Notes
Cloud Pergola
Dream Estate
Grafting Minds
Notes
The Dragonfly Wing Project
Deciphering Nature
Trained by Nature
Notes
Artificial Relief
From Another Perspective: Architectural Intelligence Colloquy of Mobiles Redux
A Machinic Cocktail Party
The Artificiality of AI
Note
Contributors
What is Architectural Design?
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