Artificial Architectures (AA)
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Artificial Architectures (AA) is the first edition of a series of lectures, round tables, and workshops focused on new Artificial Intelligence technologies applied to Architecture, to be held on November 13, 14, and 15, 2024. The series is organized by the Department of Architectural Design of the Madrid School of Architecture (ETSAM), together with researchers from the DVS group (University of Zurich), ALICE (EPFL), PROTO (UPC), Hypermedia (UPM), and the Official College of Architects of Madrid (COAM).
The growing use of artificial intelligence in architecture—from neural networks and generative models to process automation and large language models—is radically transforming the way our discipline is conceived and developed. These new tools and the possibilities they open up challenge an architectural education historically grounded in the development of a critical and instrumental culture oriented toward design, generating, at the same time, paralysis, fear, and fascination among members of the academic community. To maintain our capacity to understand and shape the design of our habitats, it is urgent to address these transformations in a thoughtful, informed, and proactive manner. To this end, the first edition of these encounters, entitled “Dissecting New Generative Technologies Beyond Paralysis and Fascination,” will deepen knowledge, debate, and experimentation with neural networks in order to address, in a transversal way, the challenges they present.
This first edition consists of three workshop-lectures and two round tables hosted at both ETSAM and COAM. Workshops require prior registration and have limited capacity. The round table on November 13, 2024, is open to the public without prior registration, while the round table on November 14, 2024, requires registration. The programme is detailed below:
13 November 2024 (ETSAM)
Registration Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdMIGL5LPOQNWcWDV5BfBEkYVl0Hlx3ocPKb2oordD6jVabxQ/viewform?usp=sf_link
The session will discuss how visual neural networks are transforming the traditional approach to developing new design processes, and how this affects the education of future architects. The discussion will include strategies for adapting curricula and teaching methods to prepare students for a future in which AI plays a central role in education.
14 November 2024 (ETSAM/COAM)
Registration Links:
Workshop | The Machine that Sees: Urban Vision with AI
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScj7yrR5NFSogKgyOs8xsRtt9QwcDlfPzQxuJd971T37hCghw/viewform?usp=sf_link
The session will address both the innovations and continuities brought about by neural tools in architectural practice, as well as the ways in which the adoption of advanced artificial intelligence technologies is transforming design and construction processes, shaping a new culture both within and beyond the discipline.
15 November 2024 (COAM)
Registration Link:
Workshop | Taking Control of AI in Architecture
https://www.coam.org/es/fundacion/actividades-culturales/cultura/302351/artificial-architectures-aa-taller-conferencia-creacion-imagenes-y
As a conclusion to the scientific sessions, the workshop will explore the need to develop our own tools through a reflection on which ontologies, actors, data, and tasks would be most closely aligned with contemporary architectural and urban concerns, from the perspectives of justice, appropriateness, usefulness, and transformative potential. Particular emphasis will be placed on the modularity and openness of tools and open data, while also ensuring their long-term sustainability.
By the end of these sessions, we hope that participants will have gained a broad overview of the current technological state of the art, as well as a critical understanding of the challenges and opportunities presented by existing tools, together with an introduction to the developments that lie ahead.
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Artificial Architectures (AA) Presentation
Artificial Architectures (AA) Full Programme
Organizing Committee:
Andrés Cánovas, Professor and Head of the Department of Architectural Design, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Lluís Ortega, Professor in the Department of Architectural Design, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Darío Negueruela, Professor at the University of Zurich and Scientific Coordinator of the Digital Visual Studies research group
Lucía Jalón, Postdoctoral Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Research Director of the ALICE laboratory (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace)
Rodrigo Delso, Professor in the Department of Architectural Design and Researcher in the Hypermedia Research Group
Pablo Olalquiaga, Vice-Dean of the Official College of Architects of Madrid