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Artificial intelligence is about to reshape the architectural discipline. After discussing the relations between artificial intelligence and the broader question of automation in architecture, this article focuses on the future of the interaction between humans and intelligent machines. The way machines will understand architecture may be very different from the reading of humans. Since the Renaissance, the architectural discipline has defined itself as a conversation between different stakeholders, the designer, but also the clients and the artisans in charge of the realization of projects. How can this conversation be adapted to the rise of intelligent machines? Such a question is not only a matter of design effectiveness. It is inseparable from expressive and artistic issues. Just like the fascination of modernist architecture for industrialization was intimately linked to the quest for a new poetics of the discipline, our contemporary interest for artificial intelligence has to do with questions regarding the creative core of the architectural discipline.
This article is based on two lectures on artificial intelligence, design and architecture given respectively for the College of Design and Innovation and the College of Architecture and Urban Planning of Tongji University in June 2019. I would like to thank her Professors Kostas Terzidis and Phillip Yuan for their kind invitations.
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On animation in architecture, see Spyros Papapetros, On the Animation of the Inorganic: Art, Architecture, and the Extension of Life (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012), Antoine Picon, La Matérialité de l'Architecture (Marseilles: Parenthèses, 2018).
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See the project showcased on his website, “Certain Measures,” https://certainmeasures.com/.
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See, for instance, Chu, Karl, “Metaphysics of genetic architecture and computation,” in Constructing a New Agenda: Architectural Theory 1993–2009 (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2010), 427: 431.
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See on this theme Antoine Picon, “Free the Robots!”, Log, n° 36, Winter 2016, 146: 151.
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We have tried to address the subject in Wendy Fok, Antoine Picon, eds, Architectural Design, “Digital Property: Open Source Architecture,” vol. 86, n° 5, 2016.
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For an example of a more collaborative form of authorship, see Philip F. Yuan, Collaborative Laboratory/Works of Archi-Union and Fab-Union (Hong Kong: Oscar Riera Publishers, 2018).
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Picon, A. (2020). What About Humans? Artificial Intelligence in Architecture. In: Yuan, P.F., Xie, M., Leach, N., Yao, J., Wang, X. (eds) Architectural Intelligence. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6568-7_2
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