Artificial Intelligence and Architecture

Artificial Intelligences (AI) has today made its way into Architecture. The pace of AIs 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, AIs presence in Architecture stands today at a crossroad. This new, updated edition of Artificial Intelligence & Architecture offers to examine this typing point.This book provides an introduction to the topic through the triple lens of history, application, and theory. A chronology of Architectures technological evolution first puts AI back in the context of the discipline. It then presents an up-to-date collection of AIs applications in Architecture. The book finally gives the stage to contributors working at the forefront of this revolution. Their perspectives provide a panorama of the discourse surrounding AIs presence in the field. Halfway between research and practice, this book offers to unveil the promise and challenges AI holds for Architecture.