Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects
AI has been unleashed. Nothing is going to be the same again.

Updated to cover all the latest developments, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT and smart assistants to groundbreaking diffusion models for video and 3D modelling, this updated new edition investigates the profound effects of AI technologies on architectural practice. It explores how AI transforms every part of the process-from the inspiration and brief, to regulations and copyright, to performance-driven design- and looks beyond discussions of software and functionality to ask more fundamental questions too: How did AI evolve? How does it work? What does it tell us about creativity? And what does it mean for the very future of the profession itself?

Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this book is a must-read for all architects wishing to stay at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects
AI has been unleashed. Nothing is going to be the same again.

Updated to cover all the latest developments, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT and smart assistants to groundbreaking diffusion models for video and 3D modelling, this updated new edition investigates the profound effects of AI technologies on architectural practice. It explores how AI transforms every part of the process-from the inspiration and brief, to regulations and copyright, to performance-driven design- and looks beyond discussions of software and functionality to ask more fundamental questions too: How did AI evolve? How does it work? What does it tell us about creativity? And what does it mean for the very future of the profession itself?

Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this book is a must-read for all architects wishing to stay at the forefront of the AI revolution.

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Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

by Neil Leach
Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects

by Neil Leach

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Overview

AI has been unleashed. Nothing is going to be the same again.

Updated to cover all the latest developments, Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence introduces AI for designers and explores its seismic impact on the future of architecture and design. From ChatGPT and smart assistants to groundbreaking diffusion models for video and 3D modelling, this updated new edition investigates the profound effects of AI technologies on architectural practice. It explores how AI transforms every part of the process-from the inspiration and brief, to regulations and copyright, to performance-driven design- and looks beyond discussions of software and functionality to ask more fundamental questions too: How did AI evolve? How does it work? What does it tell us about creativity? And what does it mean for the very future of the profession itself?

Written by one of the world's leading experts in the field, this book is a must-read for all architects wishing to stay at the forefront of the AI revolution.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350438750
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 06/26/2025
Series: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Edition description: 2nd ed.
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 5.75(w) x 8.75(h) x 0.95(d)

About the Author

Neil Leach is an architect and academic who has taught at some of the leading schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association, University of Bath, University of Nottingham, Harvard, Columbia, Cornell, SCI-Arc, USC, FIU and Tongji. He is also a licensed architect and an academician within the Academy of Europe. He has published over 30 other books, translated into 6 languages, including two on AI and Architecture and as the founder of DigitalFUTURES he has hosted over 50 sessions featuring world AI experts looking at AI and architecture.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

1. What is AI?
2. A brief history of AI
3. Image generation
4. AI, art and creativity
5. AI, media art and neuroscience
6. AI and architecture
7. The future of the architectural office
8. Brain City
9. The future of AI

Bibliography
Index

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