Machine Architecture

Sammanfattning: Recent developments in AI is changing our world. It already governs our digital life. In my thesis I take the position that AI involvement in the field of architecture is inevitable, and indeed already here. AI is neither something we can simply accept, nor wholly ignore. Rather, we should try to understand and work with it. These algorithms should not be seen as mere tools with predictable, repeatable outcomes, they are something more complex. I’ve explored the world of AI by means of teaching a machine to design diverse, typologically similar objects: residential doorways from Stockholm. By instructing the machine to read and recreate these objects it has learned to design objects similar to them. While the machine does not know what it has designed, it has nevertheless reinterpreted the residential gate, thus offering an opportunity to glimpse into to the “mind” of AI, a world equally as unknown as omnipresent.