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6 subjects · 2 pro-AI · 4 anti-AI
Showing 6 profiles · 2 pro-AI · 4 anti-AI
Architect, MIT Senseable City Lab director
The MIT urbanist and architect curated the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale under the theme “Intelligens: Natural. Artificial. Collective.” — placing AI at the heart of world architecture’s biggest event.
Architect, principal of Zaha Hadid Architects
The principal of Zaha Hadid Architects revealed in 2023 that “most” ZHA projects use DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion for early design ideation — and claims authorship of the results without apology.
Architecture critic, creator of McMansion Hell
The architecture critic behind McMansion Hell dismantled the idea that AI would “disrupt” architecture, arguing its images are conservative, derivative, and — because AI has no body and no stake in place — the “death of everything that makes architecture interesting.”
Architect, historian, and author
The American architect and historian issued one of the profession’s bluntest anti-AI manifestos, vowing to “take to the barricades” against generative design and arguing that experienced human designers cannot be matched by an algorithm.
Architect, founder of Foster + Partners
One of the world’s most influential high-tech architects says the profession does not need AI — that the technology “has the ability to deceive, to invent,” and that the physical reality of buildings and streets cannot be replicated by a machine.
Designer, founder of Heatherwick Studio
The British designer behind the Vessel and Google’s London HQ argues that AI can only regurgitate existing forms — that it will build “very boring buildings” because, unlike a human designer, it cannot suffer, love, or hold a point of view.
