Reimagining Generative Design exhibition maps artificial intelligence (AI) in architecture

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Amid ongoing fascination with the novelty and technical capabilities of contemporary artificial intelligence (AI) systems, Reimagining Generative Design challenges the notion that AI constitutes a new beginning in architecture without a past.

Curated and organized by Emek Erdolu (Tulane University, School of Architecture and Built Environment), Pedro Veloso (University of Arkansas, Fay Jones School of Architecture), and Jinmo Rhee (University of Calgary, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape), the exhibition connects recent architectural engagements with AI to the longer intellectual history of architecture and the technical history of the broader field of generative design, foregrounding continuity rather than a point of origin or rupture.

Part of the exhibition features Situating Machine Learning in Architecture, a multi-year research project that examines learning-based approaches by inves...