How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent

2024-07-25T12:36:00-04:00

As our recent Archinect In-Depth: Artificial Intelligence series demonstrated, AI will inevitably play a sizeable role in the future of the architectural profession. For architecture schools tasked with equipping students for the future of practice, the advent of AI poses significant challenges.

How do faculties account for the fast pace of innovation in AI when structuring years-long curricula? How can students from architectural backgrounds be introduced to AI through media and methods that feel relevant to their future careers? How do schools balance an existing obligation to train architects in the delivery of physical buildings with new commercial possibilities created by AI, which may stretch beyond the architect's typical domain?

To explore these questions in greater depth, we speak with Joseph Choma, Director of Florida Atlantic University's School of Architecture; a department that recently developed and launched one of the nation's first architecture programs requiring s...

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How Do We Teach AI? In Florida, One Architecture School Offers a Precedent