Diffusions in Architecture: Artificial Intelligence and Image Generators
by Matias del Campo, Lev Manovich
About the Author
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 the AR2IL (Architecture and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) at University of Michigan, and an affiliate faculty member of MichiganRobotics and Data Science. Matias del Campo is the co‐founder of the architecture practice SPAN. The practice gained wide recognition for the design of the Austrian Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, and more recently, for the Robot Garden at the FordRobotics Building. SPAN’s work was featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2012 and 2021, at ArchiLab in 2013, and at the Architecture Biennale in Vienna and Buenos Aires in 2019. Solo shows include Formations(MAK, Vienna) and Sublime Bodies(Fab Union, Shanghai). SPAN’s work is in the permanent collection of the FRAC, the MAK, the Benetton Collection, the Albertina, the Pinakothek Munich, and several private collections.
His publishing works include two editions of AD ‐ Evoking through Designand Machine Hallucinations(co‐edited with Neil Leach) and books Neural Architecture – Design and Artificial Intelligence(ORO Editions, 2022) and Sublime Bodies(co‐authored with Sandra Manninger, Tongji Press, 2017).