Meet the jury: Archinect's Generative Futures AI Storytelling Challenge

2023-05-18T08:00:00-04:00

Archinect is excited to introduce the esteemed panel of jurors for our Generative Futures: An AI + Architecture Storytelling Challenge.

The competition prompts participants to envision a future combining text and images, exploring the intersection of artificial intelligence and architecture. We invite architects, designers, students, and storytellers to dream up, reflect on, investigate, or critique our future reality (or unreality) in a rapidly changing world using AI-driven text-to-image tools for graphics, and text generation tools for words and scripts

The brief welcomes story submissions along one of the four themes: the AI-infused city, the AI-infused architecture studio, the AI-infused construction site, or, if your imagination lives beyond convention, define your own theme in our Open Category as your story relates to AI and architecture.

For this special challenge, we are proud to announce six leading figures from the world of architecture, design, entertainment, visual ar...

The future of couture is a blend of fashion, technology, and architecture

2018-12-28T14:27:00-05:00

Technology and innovation are an important part of this, but nature is my source of inspiration. That can not be otherwise, because I work for the body. Many people see nature and technology as two very different things, but I see technology as a simplified version of biological processes.

Haute couture made its debut in 1858 with Charles Frederick Worth's iconic House of Worth. Since then fashion's historical timeline has influenced architects and designers in numerous ways. Fast forward to 2018, this relationship with architects has not faded. Zaha Hadid and Neri Oxman, for example, have used fashion as another element to display methods of architectural practice. With the evolution of the 3D printer, creating mesmerizing shapes and forms has allowed for the possibilities of fashion to transform into something more than just a pretty dress.

Wanderers: Biologically-augmented 3D printed wearables ©Neri Oxman | Behance & Shoes by Zaha Hadid for United Nude Image © Zaha Hadid Architects

Acclaimed Dutch designer, Iris Van Herpen, blends fashion, science, and technology to create rhythmically stunning works. High fashion and the art of 3D fabrication is becoming more and more prevalent on the runway, and Van Herpen's Syntopia is no exception. In collaboration with Studio D...

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Meet the jury: Archinect's Generative Futures AI Storytelling Challenge

The future of couture is a blend of fashion, technology, and architecture