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Working with technology
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They explained that it all boiled down to better design outcomes, whatever that entailed in the imagination of architecture. Where capital is God, US-based Nate Helbach of Neutral showed their work on m...
Future of Housing Summit: A pathway to affordable homes
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Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects (NZIA) Interim Chief Executive and Auckland Branch Chair have announced they are teaming up with the nation’s largest trade event, BuildNZ, at the ...
Advocating for diversity and cultural integrity in architectural design through AI
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How is AI most commonly used in architectural firms today? / Sandra Baggerman (SB): AI has found its place in two main areas — design input and output. On the input side, it helps spark creativity by ge...
How MVRDV is using AI to design its buildings
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With Midjourney launching in July of 2022, Stable Diffusion in August and ChatGPT in November of that same year, the pace of AI techology is keeping the architecture world on its toes. Esbach says: “AI ...
Artificially clever
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Leach presented to a packed house (and livestream) at Warren and Mahoney’s Auckland offices, where he shared his perspective on the ways in which the rapid advancement of AI could radically transform an...
Faith over fear: Auckland Design Week conference suggests it’s time to take the AI leap
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This year’s Auckland Design Week HQ was housed in the Life church campus on Normanby Road, hence the tempting rhetorical trope of ‘faith over fear’ but, word play aside, the light-filled venue turned ou...
The AI play revolution: Rekindling creativity in architecture
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AI: A bridge back to creative roots / The advent of AI in architecture has started a new chapter, bridging the gap between digital precision and creative exploration. Technologies like Midjourney and St...
Design like a parrot
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I've noticed two distinct groups forming among architecture students I’ve been talking to concerning their use of AI chatbots like ChatGPT and text-to-image generators like DALL.E, Midjourney and Stable...
Alien Architecture: The Architecture of AI
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With the potential to create designs faster and with more accuracy than ever before, AI has the potential to revolutionise the architecture industry, leaving traditional architects out of the equation. ...
In the mind’s eye
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Ishigami was a keynote speaker at the conference run by Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects in February. I was particularly fascinated by the security camera footage Ishigami showed o...
The humanist data centre
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The amount of power required to operate data centres under construction globally has risen from 2.9 to 7.1 gigawatts (GW) in the past three years — with no signs of slowing down — raising concerns about...
Fifty shades of AI
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The conversation with AI is not one nor the other, it is not the start nor is it the end, it’s interesting yet it’s not, it’s the future or it’s now, will the intelligence of the artificial take my job?...
Ethics, a deeper shade of AI
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When we think about the past few weeks, our conversations have shifted from what’s the latest thing AI can do, with all its potential, to how are we going to manage this growth. Social media grew unhind...
Future of Design: Artificial intelligence for when times are a-changin’
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Like electricity or the internet, artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a general purpose technology with the potential to transform productivity, accelerate economic growth and improve wellbeing a...
Meet Resene: Sponsor of the Interior Awards 2024
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Karmen Hoare (KH): We have recently added Resene Cedar Natural Wood Oil to our stain collection. The standout feature of Cedar Natural Wood Oil — though not the only advantage — is that it can be used f...
Book review: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education
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The guide is, in fact, “for anyone critical of the hierarchies that both the school and the profession deploy”, and is aimed at students, educators and practitioners in architecture (and its broadened f...
Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
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By 2016, that number had increased to 70,” said Chinese artist Ai Weiwei in a crowdfunding campaign for his latest project Good Fences Make Good Neighbours, which can now be seen across New York City. “...
Attendees win big at Equinox Auckland
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Partner Event: Equinox Auckland, a boutique trade show organised by Architectural Information Services (AIS), was held last week at St Matthew in the City was attended by over 200 specifiers and trade p...
Considering our digital design future
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This fairly rapid evolution from manual drafting to digitally-generated architectural drawings and models is indicative of the progress we may see in the coming decades. As Digital Design Lead at Warren...
The bots are here
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Reader, in this column I am going to have a think about artificial intelligence (AI), and its relationship to creativity and the architectural discipline. My reason for discussing it is the recent devel...
Australian startup uses AI to shake up town planning
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The brainchild of architect and former Urban Development Institute of Australia Gold Coast President and Place Design Group director Finn Jones, Urpla is the latest venture to join the thread of future ...
A reality check and a call to arms
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But let’s take a moment to provide some context and cast our minds back to 2005 — a pivotal year for sustainable design in Aotearoa with a lot happening. In 2005: / The Kyoto Protocol came into force, m...
Future of Design: Making AI work for you
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By explaining in simple terms how a machine learning model works, I hoped to demystify this somehow scary-at-first new technology. Like electricity, which was once considered a magic trick and it is now...
Ka hoki ki te whare huri ai e!
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Taking an acutely unique Māori world view, we pay reverence to the prestige of Wai Ariki, to the whenua upon which it stands and to the iwi of Ngāti Whakaue (nō mua, nō muri, nō nāianei), who helped con...
Building Change: World Green Infrastructure Congress 2024
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Overarching themes / Sharing knowledge toward creating sustainable, livable cities, key themes of the WGIC2024 included: / Regeneration and biodiversity: Strategies for enhancing urban biodiversity thro...
Technology meets craft: Merging digital tools with traditional design in residential architecture
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In a world where almost anything can be 3D printed or prefabricated, the handcrafted details of a home stand out more than ever. Recently, we worked on a home where custom timber cabinetry became the fo...
The power of plastic bricks
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This past fortnight, the artist and architect Ai Weiwei took to Instagram to publicly lambast the Danish toymaker Lego, which had refused to fill his bulk order of blocks to make an artwork for his fort...
He pari kārohirohi, he whakapapa pounamu
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Our narrative begins with the metaphor of a manu, a bird that soars through space and time, traversing the writers’ tribal landscapes of Te Tai Tokerau, Tāmaki Makaurau and Waikato, finally arriving to ...