dear designboom reader,

the ongoing craze for AI-generated works spanning visual art forms and beyond is met with both enthusiasm and scepticism in the architecture and design community.'while I am excited about new technologies and believe they are useful in many cases, I am concerned about a future where architecture is created solely through the selective sorting of past data,' renowned japanese architect tadao ando mentioned in our recent interview when asked about his view on artificial intelligence entering architectural planning.

'an architect’s intervention brings a bit vague and contradictory odds with reality. it is these odds that make architecture unique and legitimize architects as a profession. the physical experience, embodied memory, and bodily senses of an architect are more reliable than the vast accumulation of data or its processing speed in a computer.'

thanks for reading!

sofia lekka angelopoulou | deputy editor