商品描述
Offers a bold and materially grounded rethinking of design with artificial intelligence, and proposes a new model of agency distributed across material, artificial, and human actors
Rooted in material philosophy and ecological design thinking, Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture establishes a comprehensive framework for understanding AI in architecture. Conceptually rigorous yet accessibly written and visually rich, the book interweaves design, theory, technology, and practice to explore how artificial intelligence, material agency, and human authorship will co-create the built environment of the future.
Challenging both pervasive fear-driven narratives and techno-solutionist hype that dominate public discourse around AI, the book proposes a new plane of engagement--introduced as Shared Materiality. This concept recognizes the entangled agency of human, artificial, and material actors. It also addresses the ethical, ecological, and social implications of AI technologies, including the vast energy demands of AI systems, embedded algorithmic bias, and broader concerns about systemic inequity and access. Specifically within the field of architecture, it critiques the dominance of image-based AI in current architectural discourse and practice, redirecting attention to geometry, morphology, and structure--fundamental spatial dimensions of architecture--and discusses emerging AI models that engage these domains.
Drawing on the author's extensive teaching and research experience, Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture discusses:
- Theory, technology, and design a rare integration of architecture's core domains, combining deep conceptual framing, technological insight, and advanced experimentation in design.
- Comprehensive conceptual framework: for understanding AI in architecture, rooted in new materialist thought and philosophical realism.
- AI intuition cultivating future designers' ability to collaborate with AI through attuned expertise rather than control.
- Advanced methodologies for Urban Design and Urban Housing design with a detailed presentation of speculative studio work that integrates AI, robotic fabrication, and material practice.
- Critique of typology in architecture proposing instead an open taxonomy: a dynamic, adaptive classification system that aligns with the distributed logic of AI systems.
- Critique of image-based AI in architecture: advocating geometry-based approaches that emphasize spatio-tectonic reasoning, material articulation, and spatial intelligence.
- Ethical and ecological implications of AI systems: addressing authorship, access, equity, energy consumption, algorithmic bias, and the extractive infrastructures underlying current technologies.
Material and Artificial Intelligence in Architecture delivers cutting-edge insights for architects, design enthusiasts, and interdisciplinary readers interested in the intersection of design, philosophy, and artificial intelligence. It is also highly suitable for students, educators, and researchers in architecture and design, with particular relevance to graduate-level and post-professional programs.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
提供了一種大膽且以物質為基礎的人工智慧設計重新思考，並提出了一種新的代理模式，分布於物質、人工和人類行為者之間。
根植於物質哲學和生態設計思維，《建築中的物質與人工智慧》建立了一個全面的框架，以理解人工智慧在建築中的應用。這本書概念嚴謹，但文字易於理解且視覺豐富，交織了設計、理論、技術和實踐，探索人工智慧、物質代理和人類創作如何共同創造未來的建成環境。
這本書挑戰了主導公共話語的普遍恐懼驅動敘事和技術解決主義的炒作，提出了一個新的參與層面——稱為共享物質性（Shared Materiality）。這一概念承認人類、人工和物質行為者之間的交織代理。它還探討了人工智慧技術的倫理、生態和社會影響，包括人工智慧系統的巨大能源需求、內嵌的算法偏見，以及對系統性不平等和可及性的更廣泛關注。特別是在建築領域，它批評了當前建築話語和實踐中影像基礎人工智慧的主導地位，將注意力重新引導至幾何學、形態學和結構——建築的基本空間維度——並討論了涉及這些領域的新興人工智慧模型。
基於作者豐富的教學和研究經驗，《建築中的物質與人工智慧》討論了：
- 理論、技術和設計：建築核心領域的罕見整合，結合深刻的概念框架、技術洞察和設計中的先進實驗。
- 全面的概念框架：根植於新物質主義思想和哲學現實主義，以理解人工智慧在建築中的應用。
- 人工智慧直覺：培養未來設計師通過調整專業知識而非控制來與人工智慧合作的能力。
- 城市設計和城市住房設計的先進方法論：詳細展示整合人工智慧、機器人製造和物質實踐的推測工作室作品。
- 建築類型學的批評：提出一種開放的分類法：一種動態、自適應的分類系統，與人工智慧系統的分布邏輯相一致。
- 建築中影像基礎人工智慧的批評：倡導基於幾何學的方法，強調空間-構造推理、物質表達和空間智慧。
- 人工智慧系統的倫理和生態影響：涉及創作權、可及性、公平、能源消耗、算法偏見，以及當前技術背後的掠奪性基礎設施。
《建築中的物質與人工智慧》為建築師、設計愛好者和對設計、哲學與人工智慧交集感興趣的跨學科讀者提供了前沿見解。它也非常適合建築和設計領域的學生、教育工作者和研究人員，特別適用於研究生和專業後課程。
作者簡介
Jonas Coersmeier is a German architect and American professor based in Brooklyn, New York. He explores the intersection of technology and material philosophy in design. His research and teaching at Pratt Institute and the University of Pennsylvania focus on social and ecological equity in urban housing and urban design. Educated at Columbia University, MIT, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, he brings an international perspective to architectural thinking--combining engineering discipline with speculative design experimentation. An award-winning designer, his projects have been exhibited and published internationally, contributing to a broader discourse on architecture and design.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
喬納斯·科爾斯邁爾是一位德國建築師及美國教授，現居於紐約布魯克林。他探索技術與材料哲學在設計中的交集。他在普拉特學院和賓夕法尼亞大學的研究與教學專注於城市住房和城市設計中的社會與生態公平。他曾在哥倫比亞大學、麻省理工學院及達姆施塔特工業大學接受教育，為建築思維帶來國際視野，結合工程學科與投機性設計實驗。作為一位獲獎設計師，他的項目在國際上展出並發表，為建築與設計的更廣泛討論做出了貢獻。
