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- ISBN 9781915722393
- Weight: 600g
- Dimensions: 167 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2025
- Publisher: RIBA Publishing
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How will AI transform the future of architecture and design? Is it a tool triggering creativity or a threat to human artistry?
As AI image generation reshapes the creative world, architects and designers face a critical choice: embrace these new applications or risk being left behind.
By exploring the impact of generative AI on design process, this book showcases how these tools can enhance the value of human creativity. Can AI help designers push the boundaries of their craft, or will it replace and automate the very skills that define us?
Looking at some of the early experimental workflows, it reveals emerging theories and provides step-by-step practical guidance from leaders in the field. You’ll discover how AI can be used meaningfully in design workflows and gain unique inspiration to develop your own approach to harnessing the hybrid creative powers of generative AI.
For architects, designers, and students alike, this is a roadmap to understanding and leveraging the power of AI. Will you embrace this evolution and stay ahead of the curve?
Featured contributors: Carlos Bañón, Matias del Campo, Sara Codarin, Rada Daleva, Tim Fu, Will Garner, Hassan Ragab, Keir Regan-Alexander, Ismail Seleit, Thomas S. Sibley and Kat Stevens.
Hamza Shaikh is an artist, architect and writer specializing in generative AI design at Gensler. He works in the Design Technology Co-CEOs Hub, focusing on integrating technology into global design practices. Hamza is the author of Drawing Attention: Architecture in the Age of Social Media, RIBA Publishing’s best-selling book of 2023. He curated the exhibition Vanishing Points: Architectural Imagination in the Digital Universe and was named RIBAJ Rising Star in 2023 for his leadership at the intersection of AI, architecture and social media.
