Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 3
3. ABOUT THE AUTHOR 3
4. Table of contents 4
5. Foreword 6
6. CHAPTER I Artificial Intelligence
7. Introduction 10
8. The Postwar Period 14
9. Expert Systems & AI Winters 22
10. The Deep Learning Revolution 30
11. Generative AI 38
12. CHAPTER II The Advent of Architectural AI
13. Introduction 46
14. Modularity 50
15. Computer-Aided Design 58
16. Parametricism 66
17. Artificial Intelligence 74
18. CHAPTER III AI’s Deployment in Architecture
19. Introduction 82
20. Artificial Intelligence 101 84
21. Building Scale 128
22. Perspectives 134
23. Structures 140
24. Performance 146
25. Urban Scale 152
26. The Third Dimension 158
27. The Missing Pieces 166
28. CHAPTER IV Semanticism
29. Introduction 168
30. The Revolution That Already Was 170
31. Architecture’s Abstraction Journey 176
32. Semanticism: A Second Semantic Moment 183
33. On Conditions 188
34. CHAPTER V Portraits of a Period
35. Introduction 190
36. The Theorists 192
37. Researchers 218
38. Designers 244
39. Closing Remarks 272
40. Index 276
41. Contributors 280
42. Image Credits 282
43. References 284