AI is pushing architecture's limits: Pratt exhibition shows a decade of generative experiments
ChuckDBrooks · x · 2026-09-21
MIT Technology Review covers "Transductions: Artificial Intelligence in Architectural Experimentation," a Pratt Institute exhibition bringing together 30+ practitioners exploring AI's experimental and generative potential in architecture.
- Architecture has long held a binary between built projects and "paper architecture" — the gap between physics and imagination — and generative AI is fueling a surge in theoretical exploration.
- Karl Daubmann (Lawrence Technological University) notes images from Midjourney or Stable Diffusion "feel new" but are rarely fully derived from the tools alone.
- Many practitioners explored these methods for a decade before AI went mainstream, e.g. pneumatic structure studies using Stable Diffusion's Juggernaut XL.
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