‘It’s already way beyond what humans can do’: will AI wipe out architects?::It’s revolutionising building – but could AI kill off an entire profession? Perhaps not, finds our writer, as he enters a world where Corbusier-style marvels and 500-room hotels are just a click away

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      In general, are you a fan of Le Corbusier buildings designed by humans? If you aren’t, you may be blaming AI for not liking the architect’s style. I ask because IMO the AI really nailed his style, but it’s d finitely not for everyone.

      Same goes for the pic of the Zaha Hadid building further down the article. It’s so close to something she would have designed that I immediately recognized it.

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      Still reading the article but outside appearance is also a tiny part of an architects job, and probably the easiest part. Can AI intelligently spec out every aspect of the building and its systems?

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    Can we hurry and spin up these AIs to make these cookie cutter neighborhoods not just look like the absolute worst? Can we get some house variety going on?

    I know it’s to drive down costs to build, but it seems like every new neighborhood that’s being built looks absolutely soulless and dreadful to live in.

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      As you said, it’s based on building costs. No reason for AI to change this whatsoever

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    The AI circlejerk hype season rages on! Too bad they never talk about AI replacing CEOs.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    One second they form rows of towers, next they morph into low-rise courtyards, then they flip back into long slender slabs, before cycling through hundreds of other iterations, in a hypnotic high-speed ballet of bristling buildings.

    Image-making tools such as Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion have allowed the effortless creation of seductive visions: skyscrapers in the style of Frank Lloyd Wright, fantasy mash-ups of sci-fi and art nouveau, squidgy marshmallow staircases, buildings made of rubbish.

    Tsigkari’s team has also developed a simulation engine that allows realtime analysis of floor plans – showing how well connected one part of a building is to another – giving designers instant feedback on the implications of moving a wall or piece of furniture.

    Just as deepfake technology makes it possible for dead actors to be resurrected in new roles, could we see a world where the back catalogues of deceased architects are used to generate cover versions of their work, regurgitating counterfeited classics in a nauseating feedback loop?

    Having since worked for central government on digitising the planning system, Mills has now co-founded Blocktype, an AI-powered tool for developers and planners, aimed at simplifying the process and ultimately reducing land speculation.

    “The idea behind Blocktype is that it can give you a ballpark sense of what’s possible on a site, providing sketch layouts and viability appraisals.” Mills stresses it is not a replacement for architects, but a tool to help developers think spatially when trying to determine what to pay for land.


    I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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    Arcitechs design some buildings that are pretty.

    But i rarely see modern buildings that are designed by an arcitect, that are also practically designed for the people who work or live in it, on a daily basis.

    A lot of them dont seem to think: if i worked/lived here… how would that work out in the long term?

    My wifes workplace was designed by an arcitect and its dreadfully idiotic in every way. But it LOOKS good.

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      Just FYI, every building is designed by an architect. The one that did your wife’s building is a bad one. The ones that do the buildings where you never need to think of it are the good ones.

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      Aren’t all buildings designed by an architect? Or is it more buildings that are designed primarily by a single architect vs a group of them?

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    How about we have machines deliver packages while people make art?

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    There is a use case, for example, running pipes and cabling in an efficient way.

    But I really don’t want to see more soulless design.

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    People should have ways to sustain themselves and interesting things to do. So, each time computers (& machines) beat us at something we tend to deny it until it is really obvious. Let’s face reality : in the near future we will have to admit they beat us even in architecture.