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Artificial Intelligence and Architecture

From Research to Practice. 2nd Edition, Updated and Expanded
  • Stanislas Chaillou
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already an integral element of architecture. The pace of AI’s deployment in our field, evermore bolstered by the speed of this technology's development by the tech industry, has surpassed in many ways what practitioners expected just a few years ago. Halfway between full scale adoption and hampered usage due to the obvious remaining limitations of this technology, AI’s presence in architecture stands today at a crossroad.
This new, updated and expanded edition of Artificial Intelligence and Architecture examines the current tipping point in the interraction between one of humanity's newest and one of our oldest technologies.It provides an introduction to the topic through the triple lenses of history, practice, and theory. The book begins with a chronology of the technological evolution of architecture. It then presents up-to-date examples of AI applications in architecture. Finally, it schowcases the contributors working at the forefront of this revolution. Their perspectives provide a panorama of the discourse surrounding AI in architecture.

  • Fully revised and expanded edition of an earlier introduction to AI and architecture
  • Topic viewed through triple lenses of history, practice, and theory
  • This book unveils the promise and challenges of AI in architecture

Author / Editor information

Stanislas Chaillou is an architectural designer and Machine Learning engineer, based in Paris.　
His practice, publications and exhibits tackle the back-and-forth between geometry, artificial intelligence and culture. Trained both as an architect and an applied-AI researcher at Harvard and EPFL, Stanislas' interests lie in the weaving of design and computation. Stanislas is today the co-founder of Rayon, a Paris-based startup building architectural software for practitioners.　
Among other things, Stanislas has taught "Generative AI" at IAAC (Barcelona, 2020), curated the exhibit Artificial Intelligence and Architecture at the Arsenal Pavilion (Paris, 2021), and published multiple publications on the same topic, notably Artificial Intelligence and Architecture (Birkhäuser 2022) and L'intelligence artificielle au service de l'architecture (Moniteur 2020).

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    Frontmatter

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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    Table of contents

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    Foreword

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  • CHAPTER I Artificial Intelligence
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    Introduction

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    The Postwar Period

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    Expert Systems & AI Winters

    22
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    The Deep Learning Revolution

    30
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    Generative AI

    38
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  • CHAPTER II The Advent of Architectural AI
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    Introduction

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    Modularity

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    Computer-Aided Design

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    Parametricism

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    Artificial Intelligence

    74
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  • CHAPTER III AI’s Deployment in Architecture
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    Introduction

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    Artificial Intelligence 101

    84
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    Building Scale

    128
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    Perspectives

    134
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    Structures

    140
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    Performance

    146
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    Urban Scale

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    The Third Dimension

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    The Missing Pieces

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  • CHAPTER IV Semanticism
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    Introduction

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    The Revolution That Already Was

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    Architecture’s Abstraction Journey

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    Semanticism: A Second Semantic Moment

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    On Conditions

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  • CHAPTER V Portraits of a Period
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    Introduction

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    The Theorists

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    Researchers

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    Designers

    244
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    Closing Remarks

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    Index

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    Contributors

    280
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    Image Credits

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    References

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Publishing information
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eBook published on:
August 14, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9783035629422
Paperback published on:
August 14, 2025
Paperback ISBN:
9783035629415
Edition:
2nd edition
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
288
Illustrations:
42
Coloured Illustrations:
55
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035629422
eBook ISBN: 9783035629422
Paperback ISBN: 9783035629415
Keywords for this book
Application; Architecture; Digital architecture; Digital design; Design; Research; Machine learning; Future
Audience(s) for this book
Architekturschaffende, Studierende
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