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- ISBN 9781041067047
- Weight: 570g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2026
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book addresses the growing need for architects and designers to critically engage with artificial intelligence in visual and spatial production. It offers a systematic approach to understanding, directing, and constraining generative models.
Combining theoretical insights with technical instructions, the book explains how contemporary AI tools such as latent diffusion models can be employed effectively and responsibly. Rather than relying on AI as an automatic image generator, the book proposes a methodology grounded in control, feedback, and authorship. It introduces practical workflows using platforms - like ComfyUI, MidJourney, Grasshopper and others - to explore constrains, prompt structure, and how procedural logic can be harnessed to produce intentional, coherent results.
Intended for architects, educators, researchers, and students, this volume positions AI not as a substitute for design expertise, but as a configurable system that must be shaped by the disciplinary and ethical priorities of architecture.
Mustapha El Moussaoui, an architect and urbanist, currently is an assistant professor at the Free University of Bolzano, Italy.
With a background in architecture and philosophy, Mustapha has been involved in educational courses across various countries and universities worldwide. Moreover, he has been engaged professionally in the domain with structures and competitions built and won all over the world. Mustapha's research focuses on the theoretical and practical relationship between architecture and artificial intelligence. Theoretically, his work investigates the epistemological and existential dimensions of artificial intelligence. Practically, Mustapha focuses on narrowing the hallucinatory gap between machine-generated outputs and human architectural authorship.
