Artificial Intelligence’s (AI) has today made its way into Architecture. The pace of AI’s deployment in our field, evermore bolstered by the speed of this technology's development by the tech industry, has surpassed in many ways what practitioners expected just a few years ago. Halfway between full scale adoption and hampered usage due to the obvious remaining limitations of this technology, AI’s presence in Architecture stands today at a crossroad.
This new, updated edition of Artificial Intelligence & Architecture offers to examine this typing point.This book provides an introduction to the topic through the triple lens of history, application, and theory. A chronology of Architecture’s technological evolution first puts AI back in the context of the discipline. It then presents an up-to-date collection of AI’s applications in Architecture. The book finally gives the stage to contributors working at the forefront of this revolution. Their perspectives provide a panorama of the discourse surrounding AI’s presence in the field. Halfway between research and practice, this book offers to unveil the promise and challenges AI holds for Architecture.
- Fully revised edition of an earlier introduction to AI and architecture
- Topic viewed through triple lenses of history, practice, and theory
- This book unveils the promise and challenges of AI in architecture
Stanislas Chaillou is an architectural designer and Machine Learning engineer, based in Paris. His practice, publications and exhibits tackle the back-and-forth between geometry, artificial intelligence and culture. Trained both as an architect and an applied-AI researcher at Harvard and EPFL, Stanislas' interests lie in the weaving of design and computation. Stanislas is today the co-founder of Rayon, a Paris-based startup building architectural software for practitioners. Among other things, Stanislas has taught "Generative AI" at IAAC (Barcelona, 2020), curated the exhibit Artificial Intelligence and Architecture at the Arsenal Pavilion (Paris, 2021), and published multiple publications on the same topic, notably Artificial Intelligence and Architecture (Birkhäuser 2022) and L'intelligence artificielle au service de l'architecture (Moniteur 2020).
