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To draw is to err
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I remember writing it at the tail end of 2022. And here we are in 2025, with the debate on AI now omnipresent. Some regard it with the fervour of the newly radicalised, as if mania — or revelation — lie...
Essay from India: 2
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Unless your passwords and authenticator apps forget everything you’ve taught them overnight, there’s a litany of specifications waiting in your inbox to browse through every morning. It’s all there for ...
The Festival of Architecture’s Great Debate is back
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Can AI unleash Auckland’s full potential, sparking ideas beyond human imagination? Or, is the future of our city best shaped by those of us who live, love and design it? How can we learn from AI to get ...
Sahil Tiku: Journeys through the Aotearoa Festival of Architecture: Part 4
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The incorruptible Wallace Chapman (of RNZ fame) presided. / It’s a topical question, given the panicked picketing surrounding PC120, the harbour crossing hullaballoo, the ailing Auckland Light Rail asp...
Rendered Futures: Drawing Architecture 28 June–24 August 2025 Objectspace, Auckland
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And on point, too, in view of contemporary concerns about the implications of AI for design practice and careers, a disquiet fed by the accelerating pace of technological development and the untrammelle...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. ...
A commitment to fragility
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And architectural training, as many of us know, instils a lifelong intrigue in this tension; how do we language the poetic without words? Rendered Futures is that: a space where languages without words ...
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...
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...
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...
Forging relationships
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Terry used to talk about the three As: availability, affability and ability, in that order. That stuck with me. It’s not rocket science — it’s about being there, being open and helping others create sol...
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...
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...
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 ...
Plus Architecture promotes Elke Vermeulen to Senior Associate
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I’m inspired by new tools like AI and draw on life experiences like motherhood, which have enhanced my focus and efficiency in delivering thoughtful design.” / “I aim to create beautiful, problem-solvin...