Machine Learning

1.1 TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES

DOI: 10.4324/9781003297192-2

» COMPUTERS HAVE BEEN DEPLOYED OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES LARGELY IN THE SERVICE OF MORE EFFICIENT DEPICTION AND REPRESENTATION. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SHIFTS THE FOCUS FROM REPRESENTING A DESIGN TO REASONING ABOUT IT DIGITALLY - IN SOME CASES WITHOUT THE NEED FOR A HUMAN OPERATOR OR EVEN MUCH HUMAN INTERVENTION. WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR THE EVOLUTION OF THE INSTRUMENTS AVAILABLE TO MAKE ARCHITECTURE? «

TAXONOMY OF TECHNOLOGIES

Various scholars have written the history of technology in the architecture profession and it is beyond the remit of this project to reprise that history in detail here.¹ It is possible, however, to see that history organised along two axes: the progression ...