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Are We Digital? Learning from Radio
Did you know that the reason most doctors still actively use pagers at work has an architectural explanation? That hospitals, despite being one of the least sexy or experimental of building types, are...
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A Conversation With Julia Koerner, Architecture’s Queen of 3D Fabrication
From the runway to the big screen, and now the red carpet, Austrian architect Julia Koerner has set herself apart as a designer due to her relentless quest for 3D fabrication mastery. Quickly becoming...
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A Conversation with Pamela Tan, the Architectural Designer Challenging...
Studying architecture is a challenging yet rewarding transdisciplinary nature, according to Malaysian architectural designer Pamela Tan. Through her work, she explores architecture as a celebration of...
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The Paris Model: Adapting and Creating Public Space as Cities Get Hotter
This July, Paris recorded an all-time high temperature of 42.6 degrees Celsius (108.7 Fahrenheit). The Parisian authorities quickly introduced measures to cool people down, including an app to point...
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Postgraduate Students Present Final Projects at SCI-Arc’s EDGE Symposium
For SCI-Arc’s 2019 academic year, each of the school’s four postgraduate programs engaged with a different design phenomenon or technological paradigm. The culmination of the year-long postgraduate...
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Exploring the Future of Narrative in Architecture with Natasha Sandmeier and...
Narrative, drama, and fiction have always played a key role in the production of architecture.During the 19th Century, for example, architects like Louis Sullivan and McKim Mead & White mixed...
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University of Florida Graduates Mani Karami and Drew Kauffman Create...
In their project Biokinetics, University of Florida School of Architecture M.Arch graduates Drew Kauffman and Mani Karami explore kinetic design systems as they apply to photobioreactor facade systems...
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SCI-Arc B.Arch Graduates Hongjian Qin & Chi Fong Wong Explore Post-Human...
Using Las Vegas as the backdrop of their thesis exploration, SCI-Arc B.Arch graduates Hongjian Qin & Chi Fong Wong design a data center whose structure can adapt to its surrounding desert...
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A Conversation With Cover Co-Founders on Their Tesla-Inspired Building...
Alexis Rivas and Jemuel Joseph first met while studying architecture at the Cooper Union. After school, Alexis worked on several residential projects at a number of firms. He began to notice...
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Discussing Technology and 'Architecture as Transient Media' With Güvenç Özel...
Architecture is currently at the cusp of a paradigm shift, where the environments we occupy are becoming increasingly virtual and mobile. Considered as an ecosystem of technologies rather than a...
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From Start-Up to Industry Leader: Enscape Develops A Real-Time 3D Experience...
Enscape, the leading provider of real-time rendering and virtual reality technology for the global Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) market announces the release of Enscape version 3.0...
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How Will Architecture be Affected by the Rise of Blockchain Technologies...
In the midst of a media cycle dominated by the ongoing pandemic, last week’s news that Christie’s sale of artist Beeple’s Everdays for a staggering $69 million made its way into national headlines. A...
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Meet the Architects Designing Software to Fight Climate Change
The 21st century has seen rapid advances in technology, allowing an ever-increasing portion of the architectural and urban planning process to move into digital space. At the same time, our...
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SCI-Arc's Design Immersion Days High School Summer Program Fosters Design...
Summer is here. As high school students search for programs that spark their interests, architecture institutions like SCI-Arc provide opportunities to bring the basics of architectural thinking to...
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Can a Building Dream, Learn, and Hallucinate? A Conversation with Refik Anadol
Refik Anadol has carved an eclectic career, rich with confluences. His work blurs the boundaries between art and science, the visible and invisible, the operational and emotional, the fleeting and...
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SCI-Arc Graduate and 2021 Gehry Prize Winner Proposes New Perspectives...
Continuing with Archinect's commitment to highlighting students and their academic work, we connected with SCI-Arc M.Arch II graduate Burak Celik. As the 2021 Gehry Prize Winner for best thesis, Celik...
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SCI-Arc Student Investigates How Artificial Intelligence Can Assist in 3D...
Advances in 3D modeling software continue to develop year after year. An example of this is a new thought-provoking 3D modeling plug-in designed by SCI-Arc EDGE graduate Jimmy Wei-Chun Cheng. His work...
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You, Me, and DALL-E: On the Relationship Between Architecture, Data, and...
Thirty years after the thaw of the last 'AI Winter,' the landscape of artificial intelligence is one of a forest in full bloom. On a weekly basis throughout 2023, new tools have been released taking...
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Autonomous Algorithmic Architects: Wicked Problems of Machine Learning in...
How should the architectural profession consider and respond to futures made possible by advances in artificial intelligence? Can we propose a willful, designed route that acknowledges the...
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The Illusion of Space: Can Artificial Intelligence Understand the Third...
Popular text-to-image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion have introduced what some believe to be a new creative frontier in the architectural design process. However, they also...
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ChatGPT Interviews Matias del Campo: Architecture, Hallucinations, and other...
What is artificial intelligence? How can we maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing the risks? Is the role of the architect safe from AI?In any conversation about the impact of artificial...
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New Dog, New Tricks: Reflections on Construction, Robotics, and Artificial...
What is the current relationship between humans, robotics, and construction? What is its future? To explore these questions in depth, Archinect speaks with both Boston Dynamics and the Applied Research...
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'The Notion of AI as a Form of Augmentation or Enhancement Is Fascinating to...
Behnaz Farahi stands at an eclectic intersection between culture and technology. Trained as an architect, with specializations in computational design, interactive technologies, additive manufacturing,...
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When Form Follows Meanings: AI’s Semantic Turn in Architecture
In the wake of artificial intelligence’s recently popularized presence in the architectural field and beyond, many are pondering what changes may be on the horizon in the discipline, if any. For...
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'Instead of Living in Fear of AI, Designers Should Engage With It'; A...
Amanda Talbot did not come from a technological background. Her career path through architecture, interiors, journalism, and fashion nonetheless instilled in her a commitment to heart-centric design,...
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'AI Is Both Incredible and Terrifying'; A Conversation with Neil Leach
Neil Leach is a British professor and licensed architect currently based in California. He has worked for NASA developing a 3D printer for the Moon and Mars, and is co-founder of DigitalFUTURES. Having...
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'The Relationship Between AI and Architecture Is Old Enough to Receive...
Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From there, her career as a writer, designer, historian, and professor has taken her on a journey of...
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'What Is Truly Good About AI, Nobody Has Probably Thought of Yet'; A...
To many, Richard Saul Wurman is inevitably introduced as "the man who created TED." Since Wurman organized the first TED conference in 1984, the organization's library has expanded to over 4,300...
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Design, Computation, and Humans: Exploring the Intersection with Onur Yüce Gün
For Onur Yüce Gün, the study of computation is the study of the human condition itself. A mission to anchor humans at the center of AI and computational design brought Gün on an educational journey...
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AI, Complexity, and Ecological Futures: A Conversation with Alisa Andrasek
For Alisa Andrasek, a career in architecture represents a point of convergence for her dual passions for art and science. For the past two decades, a respect for both the mathematic and emotional, the...
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