Future Illiteracies -- Architectural Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23434v1
• Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2025 11:15:39 GMT
• Title: Future Illiteracies -- Architectural Epistemology and Artificial Intelligence
• Authors: Mustapha El Moussaoui,
• Abstract summary: We argue that when architects approach AI passively, without actively engaging their own creative faculties, they risk becoming passive users locked in an endless loop of horizontal expansion without meaningful vertical growth.<n>By examining the AI of architecture in the age, this paper calls for a paradigm where AI serves as a tool for vertical and horizontal growth, contingent on human creativity and agency.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In the age of artificial intelligence, architectural practice faces a paradox of immense potential and creeping standardization. As humans are increasingly relying on AI-generated outputs, architecture risks becoming a spectacle of repetition- a shuffling of data that neither truly innovates nor progresses vertically in creative depth. This paper explores the critical role of data in AI systems, scrutinizing the training datasets that form the basis of AI's generative capabilities and the implications for architectural practice. We argue that when architects approach AI passively, without actively engaging their own creative and critical faculties, they risk becoming passive users locked in an endless loop of horizontal expansion without meaningful vertical growth. By examining the epistemology of architecture in the AI age, this paper calls for a paradigm where AI serves as a tool for vertical and horizontal growth, contingent on human creativity and agency. Only by mastering this dynamic relationship can architects avoid the trap of passive, standardized design and unlock the true potential of AI.

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