Machine Hallucinations Architecture and Artificial Intelligence

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.

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

Wolf dPrix, Karolin Schmidbaur, Daniel Bolojan and Efilena Baseta

Creative AI          22

Augmenting Design Potency

Daniel Bolojan

Space in the Mind      28

of a Machine

Immersive Narratives

Refik Anadol

Strange, But         38

Familiar Enough

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        60

of Creativity

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

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