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Diffusion — How AI Paints from Noise
The most useful word in image-AI is also the most badly named. We say the model “generated” an image—as if it began with a blank canvas and laid down strokes the way a draughtsman would. It did nothing of the kind. The model began with pure...
Tokens, Context, and Why AI Forgets Your Project Halfway Through
A practising architect, four weeks into a residential project, asks the model to refine the kitchen detailing. The model returns a confident, well-composed proposal — and quietly drops the constraint, established in week one, that the clien...
What AI Actually Is — A Probability Engine, Not a Computer
Most of the frustration architects report with AI is not a tool problem. It is a category mistake. The architect, trained for two decades to operate deterministic software — CAD, BIM, Revit, Photoshop, V-Ray — sits down in front of ChatGPT...
Five Plates That Hold
Image generation has spent the last few years trying to impress architects.
Atmospheres. Impossible houses. Cinematic interiors. Polished facades. Unbuilt resorts. Enough visual noise to make every studio look temporarily prophetic. Most o...
Dreaming Engines and Grounded Generators: How to Route AI Through an Architectural Workflow in 2026
There is a strange kind of fatigue that has entered architectural practice in the age of AI.
Not the fatigue of work itself. We have always worked. We have always wrestled with uncertainty, deadlines, client anxiety, revisions, and the slo...
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Principal Architect at RBDS | AI & GenDesign Expert at RBDSai Lab | Author of "Delirious Architecture" | Public Speaker & Educator | Mentor for Aspiring Architects
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