I watch listen and read about AI with interest, not because I understand it, but more, I need to understand it, simply because I can see how our building will at some point integrate AI into its fundamental running,
So often we design and detail building in the vain hope that the client and subsequent owners will run the building as we envisaged, clean it as we want and occupy it in the way he told us in the brief. But in reality, this is never quite to way, Clients don't understand, or can't afford it, or simply think they know best !!
AI will, if used correctly, run the building as we envisaged, and adapt as life depicts, understand new owners and shout loudly when they abuse the design.
To this end, I listen to a podcast and also read Lex Fridman's articles on the subject, his latest podcast and one I have listened to twice is a conversation he has with Alex Garland, this link takes you to a page with almost every podcast player, choose your poison. But the video is below via YouTube.
Alex Garland is a writer, not a trained scientist or physicist, his claim to fame are plenty, but the three films I like most taken from his work are:
So often we design and detail building in the vain hope that the client and subsequent owners will run the building as we envisaged, clean it as we want and occupy it in the way he told us in the brief. But in reality, this is never quite to way, Clients don't understand, or can't afford it, or simply think they know best !!
AI will, if used correctly, run the building as we envisaged, and adapt as life depicts, understand new owners and shout loudly when they abuse the design.
To this end, I listen to a podcast and also read Lex Fridman's articles on the subject, his latest podcast and one I have listened to twice is a conversation he has with Alex Garland, this link takes you to a page with almost every podcast player, choose your poison. But the video is below via YouTube.
Alex Garland is a writer, not a trained scientist or physicist, his claim to fame are plenty, but the three films I like most taken from his work are:
But it's Ex Machina I watch time and time again, each time picking up on how the robot, works and thinks, or how the automation of the dwelling works if you have not seen it, look it up on Netflix, There is so much to see and understand around AI, how complex the algorithms must be to even start to work at the level he imagines.
Apart from the real question of AI, how do we teach this to aspiring construction graduates across the broad spectrum of disciplines found in Architecture? My own thoughts are that we should introduce the subject at the undergraduate level, but concentrate on the construction, materials sequence of operations, teaching an understanding of sharing their work in a manner that allows a complete understanding of the building materials used plus the art of detailing, and introduce this concept of programming gently, simple use of Dynamo or Grasshopper, the use of spreadsheets generated from the model which relies on good sound data input, and leave the more complicated stuff to Masters and above.
Even at undergraduate level, I teach the use of a digital plan, so often this is aimed at understanding the way technology will be used during the construction phase and into the life of the building, perhaps the way AI is used at this later stage is the work at Masters and above.
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