The Future of Architecture: A look beyond the AI hype
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We're well aware of the current AI hype and how it has the potential to reshape the Architecture Practice. It can be both exciting and frustrating, given the uncertainties it brings. However, it's important to differentiate between the hype and the actual developments happening in the field.
In this conversation, we chat with Olly Thomas, the Design Specialist Manager at BIG London, who offers a firsthand look at these changes. You'll come to realize that things are not always as they seem. This discussion promises to alter your perspective on the current state of architecture and AI.
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Sadly, from my observations over the past 30 years of my design career in architecture and related design practices, the landscape doesn’t care much about the “thinking”, this is maybe most evident in Netflix leveraging their data to script stories with actors driven by the data. The “thinking” value proposition will be subverted as quickly as possible by those with the capital. I think we’re looking at the last gasps of the practice
But can AI go above and beyond and draw details & compose a full CD set flawlessly? 🤔 Doubt it.
@@BM4KVX of course it can with time. Just copy paste with slight modification to fit the context. In the future, architects/designers are just reviewersapprovers to review AI's work.
Great interview Oliver and Steven, this was super fun to listen to. Even though I went to Architecture school just like you guys, I mostly do ArchViz as my main work so if anyone is scared of AI, it'd be me 😂 However, with any new tech and inventions that come out I think it'll create a bigger gap between the ones who are willing to learn to adapt and those who aren't. I've been going down the AI rabbit hole myself and what I learned was definitely scary, it's more capable than we think. But I'm also an optimist in that I think if we put in the work, we can learn how to utilize it as a tool to enhance our skills rather being replaced by it. Keep up the great content! ❤
Hey, Minh! Thanks a lot for the feedback! And I totally feel you, it's scary and I'm not sure how this industry is going to cope with it. We're all in this together I believe haha. On one hand, it can help new architects and students get their ideas visualized and represented in a better and faster way. But also, it then simply takes away our jobs of teaching this new generation how to do it. I still believe identity and creative process will count a ton in the final outcome, but let's see where this heads to. Btw I love your content, and I always find myself going back to your videos to learn new tricks. We should do something together in the future! Cheers 😀
@@LearnUpstairs yes! no matter what I think there's definitely a place for creatives and designers like us, if anything, it'll become even more important. I'm glad my content are useful! It's been a busy year for me since I had a baby but I'm finally getting back to creating more content. And I agree! I do have an idea that for our collaborations and it's not just us two, I'd love to include Steven as well. Love both of your guys' content. I think each of us has a unique style hat we can probably do some kind of challenge and see how it creative we can get!
Ai is wild now... It needs to be tamed ...need a master and that's where The real test is... How cabable you are to guide Ai... Oppurtunities lies there... It's a dwell between Ai and your imagination put on words... It's actually a fun ride... Ai has disrupted everything... We have to show who is the Boss or else get ready to be kicked on ass...
Good input. But all in all, learing AI, just mean using it to do job extremely efficiently. And extremely efficient users, mean far less work on the market. You know what that means.
Oh, I agree about the excitement surrounding Unreal. Even as an actual design tool, I can see a future in real-time rendering.
On the other hand, AI, which I have been using lately, doesn't excite me as much. AI, as broad a term as it has become, has its place. But as long as it's unable to track parts of your project in a 3D space (meaning image-generators such as Midjourney are only limited "artists" at this point) and adjust documentation accordingly, interact with our BIM environment and... tell people what to do on site (lol)... it's only a tool.
And, sure, as with the tech revolution that came with the internet, early adopters will have an advantage.
Great input! I do agree with you on some points. But it's all just the beginning, let's see where it's headed
watching now, its interesting & informative video.
Very needed discussion and lot of valuable info here! Great to see you all togther, greetings from Mexico guys! Viviano
Thanks, man! Your support is much appreciated! 💙
great convo and info
Good job Oliver and Steven. The topics discussed in this video are quite relavant especially to students. Keep em coming guys!! 👍👍
Thanks a lot for the feedback! It means a lot to us. 🙏
Very informative, a must watch for any current students.
This right here is a good conversation. Olly said it best at @8:18 . As architects and Arch Viz artist we are hired to solve problems through creativity and that is irreplaceable. Ai is amazing, and we should be able to do better works because of it. I imagine how AI will progress in a year, and AR is just around the corner once tech catches up it.. Looking forward to Part 2 a year from now. hopefully Mr. Clippy comes back lol Hats off to You and Oliver for this.
Really great content! Olly’s insight in Ai is impressive, he communicates clearly the stand of Ai right now, Thanks Oliver and Steven for putting the work for this conversations to happen, both for students and the ones who are now finishing archi school like myself.
I'm so happy to hear that! Thanks a lot for the feedback. It's such an important conversation to have about AI. We only see the hype and extreme use case, but I wanted to bring light into how it has actually been used and what someone as Olly with his position at BIG thinks about it.
Amazing discussion
This is a very exciting and engaging video. Thank you, Oliver and Steven, for bringing Oily to discuss this very important subject. One can listen to him for hours.Awesome insights as always.Honestly didn't want it to end.
Amazing discussion Olly, Steven & Oliver! I could relate to some of the points you guys touched upon. AI is definitely here to stay, but what and how Architects use it for is just unclear at the moment I feel, and for any technologist/specialist who deals with such tools on a daily basis, it is quite difficult to keep up with the new releases, given the rapid growth of AI. Great conversation you guys, really brings to perspective what large architecture companies look for and what Olly said is quite relatable. Thank you for this! #TeamATN
So true! That has been my feeling for the past months, a mix of enthusiasm, but also fear, and on top of that trying to navigate through the hype. Much has been inflated and these conversations with people actually using the tech ground us to understand the real scenario. Thanks a lot for the message, Krishnan!
As with everything in AI now - it's just a matter of time. Unless people choose to stop it. With architecture, it's really just a matter of some company making a carefully crafted app, that connect few features. One feature would be plan drafting - a robust software would take inputs for law restrictions, area, all rules, the output would be the plan, then style input, 3 dimensional restrictions, height etc. the output would be few possible buildings, the one picked could be then QUICKLY refined, also by AI, only guided by a human. One ready building with all measures, according to law, in few hours of work. We are just few years away now. Unfortunately. Unless we stop it. But we won't most likely.
great work i loved it
Great interview! Very insightful about AI architecture.
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Yayy! Never been this early to your video!
I wouldn't agree with the 3D print versus model building. The value in building a model by hand is not only seeing the finished product, but you also get a understanding of the structure and detail of the model you are making. You notice things that you wouldn't do. (See 30x40 video about model making for example). A render is something you want visualized, and is not interactive in the same way, where i see AI be more applicable. Would appreciate others thoughts on this:)
Where are some good resources/blogs/channels to keep up to date with all things AI in architecture? I would love to know more and be good at it but I can't keep up with all the different softwares and constant developments
Perhaps, AI assists in 3D rendering in 360 of the object and deep learning into the underround garage space inside for instance, so the whole object can be view from externally and toward to internally like a real time movie clip. It could be an advange in productivity, taken 50% more projects with same amount of resource.
Hii I want to ask what about blockchain could we use blockchain in architecture
Good question! I understand the immense value blockchain technology already brings to our society. But I'm intrigued to see how it can be used in many more fields. I'll keep that on my notes to explore this topic in future conversations I have with Olly and others.
Make me rethink what is really adding value to an idea. Still, what a time to be alive.
I agree , have seen similarities in Ai output everywhere!
Very intresting and a lot of cause for concern. I wonder what effect AI will have on population growth, as people will be so concerned about their job security that starting a family may be delayed and those that really dive into the tech will not have much time for sex.
Some say that human extinction is going to be due to low birth rates. It's a trend that we can already see happening in some countries, but I do see what you mean... the AI causing job instability is surely another factor in this equation 😔
One tech is also useful in our field 'that open company' where you create your own Bim programs
Thanks for sharing this. I haven't heard about it until now! I'll definitely look into it
real time rendering changes our entire workflow ... for the better ... as architects.
Humasn are actually training our future replacement hahaha!
Well, I do not agree with the speakers. AI is likely to slowly erase architect role. If you look in the long term, if the architect just do the thinking and AI implement the drawing, why a client should go to an architect in the first place. Client can provide the thinking. Example: I am a person who want build a house. I give the parameter (size of the plot) to AI; I give AI information about the style I want; I give also a narrative to the project if I want; AI elaborate the data and check the building regulations. At the end of the process it shows me the render option. I pick the render I prefer, choose the materials. After the details are chosen AI create the model from which he can extract technical plans and engineering drawing. With that drawing I go to the builder (probably handled by robots) and start building. Of fours the interaction cannot be done by a kids but depending on how difficult is to communicate with AI a graduate person can do the process.
In fact what the speaker is missing is that architect just not do the “thinking”: what makes the profession survive is having expertise on regulations and technicalities. If you remove technicalities from the plate you make architecture accessible to the final consumer: everybody with a idea can ask AI to create the drawings. The only barrier is the time you have to spend talking to AI but imagine how much money u save on architect’s bill and engineers. This is especially true for public sector : imagine if building office of municipalities start to apply this method, they don’t need any more firm like BIG. Of course we are not there yet but definitely it is going to be the way. I’m afraid …
I think the same way, it's just a matter of time, have you seen the openai robot? They will be equally similar to human beings, but with the ability to do everything infinitely better, for all professions.
Too true.
Cutting edge tech, faxinating
35:10 modeling context?!?!?!?!
(A personal timestamp)
As history shows us, there are bound to be revolutions that lead to the disappearance of some professions and the emergence of others, and it seems that this is happening these days.
I'd like to see some ai agents put to work on designs in a clever way, similar to how ChatDev works.
Totally agree. In the end, Architecture will always be based on human thinking and behavior.
and interaction
They forgot that no body want to be an architect in the future. No body want to do those design what Tim Fu did just beautiful shapes nothing more.
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they say a picture is worth a thousand words, but is a thousand words (prompt) worth a picture
All this thinking and adding value? It's all very exciting from a technology point of view, but the human component in all of this is surely devalued. You don't need the training, the experience if there is a tool or assist for every aspect of the job. The end result, the value of the architect declines further. Salaries go down as a result of oversupply of labour as productivity increases. The bigger offices will survive, the smaller/mid-sized office will disappear. A side note, there's a lot of hype around at the moment reminiscent of the BIM hype a decade ago. Most offices simply couldn't organise themselves (due to intergenerational hierarchy/office politics) to fully implement BIM. A lot of offices to this day use BIM like sketchup and barely touch 'I' in BIM instead farming the modelling out to the part I and II and then ditching the workflow later on in the process. Will AI be different?
My take is everything with information is becoming expendable..intellect in not intelligence though
I want to start podcasts like yours in greece but havent graduated yet . Keep up bros
Super nice content.