The Dodecahedron and the Basket of Fruit: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Corbo, Stefano (2023) The Dodecahedron and the Basket of Fruit: Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. DISEGNO: A DESIGNKULTÚRA FOLYÓIRATA, 7 (1). pp. 94-104. ISSN 2064-7778

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Abstract

Starting from the late 1980s, the advent of digital design—the possibility to ideate, develop, and generate projects via computers—has progressively pushed the disciplinary discourse to rethink architecture’s role in society, as well as its formal manifestations. The contemporary evolution of digital architecture has taken different directions, which are sometimes contradictory and ambigu- ous in their intents. This paper especially focuses attention on one of those directions—the opportu- nities that artificial intelligence can offer in the future production and communication of architec- ture. Recent episodes are analysed and contextualised within the historical antinomy between two diverging worldviews that, since the fifteenth century until the end of the twentieth century, have informed the architectural discourse. These worldviews can be exemplified in the dichotomy between the dodecahedron and the basket of fruit.

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