The Emperor’s New AI

The Tragicomedy of Executives Using AI and Pretending Not To

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The Crumbling Foundations of Architecture

How Recent Employment Data Demands New Ideas on How We Train Future Architects

Sep 9 • 

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July 2025

Smooth Curves, Rough Edges: Using Simulators to Map the A.I. Future

What Emergent World Models Can Show us, and what they can hide from us.

Jul 24 • 

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Make the Tool? Or Buy the Tool?

‘Life as a Disaster’ tackles the eternal question

Jul 22 • 

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June 2025

No, AI is Not Like CAD, or BIM.

Why The Digital Revolution's Lessons Don't Apply to Artificial Intelligence

Jun 24 • 

Eric Cesal

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AI as a Global Rorschach Test

How What We Think About AI Tells Us Something About Ourselves

Jun 19 • 

Eric Cesal

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Encoding Architectural Knowledge

New Research from Biomedical Sciences Points to a More AI-Savvy Way to Organize Architectural Knowledge

Jun 2 • 

Eric Cesal

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May 2025

Convergent Intelligence in Architecture

Towards a Model of Constructability in AI

May 19 • 

Eric Cesal

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April 2025

MYTH: "AI Governance is Just for Nerds"

Why and How Architects Can and Should Participate in A.I. Governance

Apr 15 • 

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March 2025

AI, Architecture, and the Supposed Death of Critical Thinking

How AI Kills Our Critical Thinking, And Prepares Us for Senior Leadership Roles at the Same Time

Mar 27 • 

Eric Cesal

Doing the Right Things, More Rightly

Robot Bloodhounds, Vampire Drones, and AI's Humanitarian Potential

Mar 10 • 

Eric Cesal

February 2025

Architects, A.I., Creativity & Copyright

How A.I. Will Steal All of Our Ideas, and Why it Probably Doesn’t Matter

Feb 18 • 

Eric Cesal

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