the ai edit™

design assisted by artificial intelligence

Early experiments with off-the-shelf generative AI provide a work-around to the principles one learns as a trained architect, allowing us to work in the space of the conceptual image alone while eschewing client demands, programmatic requirements, site considerations et cetera.

Some prompts provide specific instructions while others are intentionally vague, allowing the AI to hallucinate unforeseen results ... we go down the rabbit hole from time to time.

Strange mashups and schemas including parasitic architectures, succulent buildings made of tissue and vesicles, clothing grown of bone and skin, and larval houses in various states of transformation can be found within …