Future Trends: AI Leadership in Architecture Practices
The 2026 AIA Technology Survey reveals a startling shift: 89% of architecture firms now use AI tools regularly, up from 23% just two years earlier....
History & Future
Understand the evolution of technology in architecture and future trends.
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Historical Case Studies: When Tech Transformed Architecture
The Pompidou Center's revolutionary design would have been impossible without computer-aided structural analysis. Foster's Hong Kong and Shanghai B...
AI and the Evolution of Architectural Drawing Tools
The hand sketch that took 15 minutes to communicate a design concept becomes a detailed visual rendering in 30 seconds through AI. The spatial rela...
Lessons from Past Tech Revolutions for AI in Architecture
'Computers will never replace the architect's pencil,' declared the firm principal in 1987, watching a young associate struggle with early CAD soft...
How AI Builds on Architectural Precedents from History
You're designing a public library and need to understand how successful libraries have addressed natural lighting, community gathering, and flexibl...
The History of Technology Adoption in Architecture: From CAD to AI
In 1985, a heated debate erupted at an AIA conference when a young architect demonstrated computer-aided drafting. 'Real architects draw by hand,' ...