AI Can Turn Hours Of Architecture Work Into Seconds. But At What Cost? It was on a plane from St. Louis to Atlanta that Eli Hoisington, co-CEO of HOK, found himself sketching on his iPad. A visual artist, Hoisington said he still enjoys the process of putting pen to paper — or in this case stylus to screen. Just a year ago, he would have taken those drawings and started a long process of iterating — likely bringing in a rookie architect to do some of the early visioning. But today, Hoisington is able to accomplish that next step within an hour. When he gets back to his desk, he uploads the sketches, overlays and cleans them up and presses a button. The artificial intelligence-driven software then spits out several variations in seconds. 
AI tools are just now getting to a point where they are advanced enough to be useful to architects, half a dozen individuals in the profession told Bisnow. Their firms have increasingly been experimenting with software and determining how best to use the technology in their practices. But as firms dip their toes… Read the full story here. | 
