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The Language of Architecture – Sprache wird Architektur
Recent advancements in the field of artificial intelligence have created powerful tools for the generation of images of architecture based on text prompts. Speaking and writing – once considered inferior to drawings and models – become powerful and immediate design driver. At the intersection artistic exploration and rigorous analysis, this seminar investigates the unexpected digital renaissance of text and trains your competence to write (about) architecture in the age of machine learning and instant artistic practice.
Jüngste Entwicklungen im Bereich der künstlichen Intelligenz geben uns Werkzeuge von ungeahnter Kraft in die Hand um aus einfachen Texteingaben eindrucksvolle Bildwelten entstehen zu lassen. Sprechen und Schreiben, gegenüber Zeichnungen und Modellen einst als schwächere Entwurfsmittel begriffen, werden zu leistungsstarken und unmittelbaren Architekturwerkzeugen. An der Schnittstelle von künstlerischer Praxis und scharfer Analyse erkundet das Seminar die überraschende digitale Renaissance der Sprache im Zeitalter des maschinellen Lernens und trainiert die Fähigkeit Architektur zu (be-)schreiben.
Detailed Schedule:
First Session: 18.10.22 Introduction
Introduction Students: exposure to AI and writing
Introduction Hannes (manege, ETH, archithese)
Schedule / Guests / Expectations
Input HM – 30min / discussion
Second Session: 25.10.22 Workshop: Text-to-image with Cenk
Learn to work with midjourney.ai, Dall-e, DreamStudio, dreamfields, neural radiance
Syntax, Weights, Style, Camera, Format
Discussion with Cenk and Students on the future of “writing architecture”
Topics: Technologies, Making it 3D, Authorship
Hand-out exercise 1: Prepare for 3rd Session (2W)
See session 08.11.22
Third Session: 08.11.22 Language Laboratory:
Syntax, logic, weights, learning, algorithms
“Assemblage” in the age of AI
Group 1: diffusion
Group 2: encoding/decoding
Group 3: dimensionality reduction
Group 4: Image Encoding / Labelling
Hand-out exercise 2:
Step 1: Generate Image “P”, send to student B (10.11)
Step 2: student B to “imagine” text prompt, send this prompt to student C (14:11)
Step 3: student C writes (about) the architecture based on the imagined text prompt. 2000 Characters incl. spaces (24.11)
Fourth Session: 29.11.22 Writing (about) architecture and AI
See Step 1/2/3 in parallel. Review Texts Step3 with Feedback from Hannes
Hand-out exercise 3a: Critique the image. student C critiques image P. 2000 Characters incl. spaces. 3b: take in feedback and refine text from exercise 2.
Submission 1 18.12.22 define submission deadline with students in line with other
dates, e.g. design studio presentations etc.
Fifth Session: 10.01.23 Refine / Define
Sixth Session: 24.01.23 Stage / Review
Bild: Hannes Mayer