Artificial Intelligence: Architecture Research & Practice maps the emerging territory where machine learning meets architectural design, tracing AI's history before examining how it is reshaping practice from urban planning to floor plan generation.
About This Book
Architecture has been slow to absorb artificial intelligence, but the discipline is catching up. Edited by Stanislas Chaillou, this book operates in two registers: first as a lucid historical overview of AI and its earliest architectural applications, then as a curated collection of essays from practitioners and academics at institutions including Harvard and Bauhaus Universities. Together they construct a panorama of what computational design tools might genuinely enable — not as speculation, but through specific, documented examples of AI deployed in creative practice. For architects and researchers navigating this shift, it provides both conceptual grounding and practical reference.
Key Features
- 208 pages of historical survey, critical essays, and documented case studies of AI in architectural practice
- Edited by Stanislas Chaillou, with contributions from experts at Harvard and Bauhaus Universities
- Published by Birkhäuser Verlag, 2022
What You'll Discover
- A historical account of AI's development and its earliest, often overlooked, points of contact with architecture
- How AI is being applied as a planning tool across scales — from city-level urban planning to the granular logic of floor plans
- Diverse scholarly perspectives on computational design, drawn from contributors across leading architecture and technology programmes
- A considered argument for AI not as a replacement for architectural thinking, but as a new mode of working within it
About the Author
Stanislas Chaillou is the editor of this volume and a figure working at the intersection of architecture and machine learning research. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 208
- Dimensions: 170 x 240 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783035624007
- Publisher: Birkhäuser Verlag
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers exploring computational workflows, academics researching AI's role in the built environment, and students at the intersection of technology and spatial design.