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With its ability to subvert our perceptions of the world, AI can create images of quirky strangeness and charm, resulting in hyper-surrealist juxtapositions of form and uncanny beauty. Founding partner of Young & Ayata and Associate Professor at the Cooper Union, New York, Michael Young investigates recent output from architect Karel Klein and her collaborators, and speculates on the power of their ‘estrangements’ and the capitalist underbelly of AI.

Architecture is a complex web of semiotics – signs, signals and signifiers. The creation of these codes, and their dynamic manipulation and interaction over time, is the lifeblood of experimental architecture practice SPAN's Doghouse project. Co-founder Sandra Manninger explains how the project's articulation, robotic inhabitants and fluctuating symbolic meanings and languages create a complex multi-readable architectural structure and text.

In the last thirty or so years, architects have embraced all manner of computer softwares and hardwares. This has often resulted in convoluted forms and a concentration on the part of architects to solve fabrication complexities at the expense of dexterous design explorations. Artist, designer and educator Andrew Kudless reminds us of the messy, illogical and contradictory aspects of design development, and that we have yet to develop something as multivalent in its evocative suggestions as the old-fashioned ‘hairy’ sketch.

Since the AI ‘architectural explosion’ of 2022, and as things have become clearer but have not yet settled down, a whole raft of possibilities for creativity and commercial exploration are emerging. Architectural and urban designer Wanyu He explains some of these opportunities, and also reminds us of the ethical and societal concerns about this technology – its biases and blindnesses – which must be addressed before these new approaches can be applied equitably.

AI is developing at breakneck speed, with generation after generation of software/algorithms swiftly and exponentially appearing in a matter of months of each other. Associate Dean and Professor Adjunct at the Yale School of Architecture Phil Bernstein, an expert in architectural practice and technology, lucidly examines the way the profession has responded to previous digitally enhanced design techniques, and how future uptake of AI technology will affect the workflow, form finding, optimisation and anatomy of the discipline.

There is more than just human intelligence out there, and we must now get to grips with the end of human uniqueness. Our accelerating dexterity with biology of all sorts, digital software and hardware, pharmacology and a myriad other interventionist or evolutionary technologies is leading to the design of architectures/bodies/ systems that are fundamentally intelligently entangled. Harvard Graduate School of Design's Andrew Witt explains this ongoing synthesis and its cultural and social ramifications for today and deeper into tomorrow.

For architects, the construction of a dataset for use in AI, whether imported from somewhere else or newly created, is fundamentally an epistemological canon of references, likes and preoccupations often predicated on the selection of so-called masterpieces of Western art. The canon represents ideals of beauty and knowledge, but it also reflects a bias in favour of art created by those who have occupied the most socially, politically and economically powerful positions in culture. Mario Carpo, architectural historian, critic and Reyner Banham Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, leads us through a succinct series of eras and architectural styles to demonstrate this fact and their lack of diversity.