Diffusions in Architecture: Artificial Intelligence and Image Generators

Acknowledgments xi
 
Contents xii
 
Preface xvi
Lev Manovich
 
Prologue xxiv
Matias del Campo
 
Suppositions 1
 
Rice or Pasta? Choose Your AI 2
Mario Carpo
 
Taxonomy 6
Matias del Campo
 
Diffusions 10
Bart Lootsma
 
The Labors of AI 18
Sandra Manninger
 
An Artificial Tale 28
Ryan Vincent Manning
 
Resistance Is Fertile 38
Joy Knoblauch
 
Ontology of Diffusion Models 44
Matias del Campo
 
Taxonomy
 
Commorancies 55
 
The Etiology of a New Collective Architecture 56
Kory Bieg
 
Noise, Pixels, and Ancient Metamorphic Rocks 66
Matias del Campo
 
Timberpunk, Prompt Odyssey, Synthetic Ground, and Other Projects 78
Soomeen Hahm and Hanjun Kim
 
Computation Past Forward 88
Marco Vanucci
 
Diffusion Models 98
Alicia Nahmad Vazquez
 
Vestures 109
 
Design as a Latent Condition 110
Daniel Bolojan
 
AI, Architecture, and Art 120
Niccolo Casas
 
The Advent of Trees in Architecture 13
Daniel Köhler
 
Five Points of Architecture and AI 140
Andrew Kudless
 
De-Coding Visual Cliches and Verbal Biases 15
Sina Mostafavi and Asma Mehan
 
Light Architecture 160
Rasa Navasaityte
 
Driftwood Rock 170
Igor Pantic
 
Digital Spoliare 180
Dustin White
 
Estrangements 191
 
Imago Mundi Imaginibus Mundi 192
Cesare Battelli
 
3D Diffusion or 3D Disfiguration? 202
Immanuel Koh
 
Role Play 212
Elena Manferdini
 
The Doghouse 222
Sandra Manninger
 
Do Humans Dream of Furry Houses? 232
Virginia San Fratello
 
Allies in Exile 242
Kyle Steinfeld
 
Appendix 253
 
Epilogue 254
 
Matias del Campo
 
Glossary 256
 
Contributor Profiles 264
 
References 268
 
Bibliography 284
 
Index 286
 
Image Credits 290
 
About the Author 323

Matias del Campo is a registered architect, designer, and educator. He is an Associate Professor at Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, director of AR² IL - The Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at UoM, and an affiliate faculty member of Michigan Robotics and Data Science. Matias del Campo is the co-founder of the architecture practice SPAN. His previous publications include Neural Architecture - Design and Artificial Intelligence (ORO Editions 2022) and Sublime Bodies (co-authored with Sandra Manninger, Tongji Press 2017)
 
Lev Manovich is a Presidential Professor at The Graduate Center, City University of New York, and the founder and director of the Cultural Analytics Lab. He is an artist, writer, and one of the most influential theorists of digital culture worldwide.