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“'While AI prompts served as a generative base, MAP Studio contributed specific historical precedents, environmental criteria, and critical site data, ultimately shaping AI outputs into contextualized and functional proposals.' —Katherine Lambert, AIA, MAP Studio                                                                                                                                     'Architecture X Architecture:  A Dialectic, is a provocation: a document of architectural thinking unmoored from certainty, entangled with machinic vision, and suspended in a newly unfolding condition of formal, aesthetic, synthetic and epistemic ambiguity.' — Christiane Robbins, MAP Studio”

Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic

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Foreword by Kum-Kum Bhavnani 
Essays by Bill Seaman, Katherine Lambert, Christiane Robbins, Kyle Steinfeld, and Amanda Wasielewski 
Afterword by Aaron Betsky
Edited by Oscar Riera Ojeda

Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic reimagines the visual and conceptual frameworks of architectural design and visualization, positioning machine vision and generative AI not merely as tools but as transformative agents within the intricate ecosystems of architectural practice. MAP, Metropolitan Architectural Practice, has engaged with digital technologies that have not only reconfigured imaging processes but have fundamentally altered how architects may conceive, iterate, and materialize spatial form. 

By integrating imaging technologies with pioneering design methodologies, MAP introduces the concept of “neo-ecologies”—a dynamic, intersectional environment that is adaptive and deeply layered. No longer confined to built form, MAP’s projects are representative of a vibrant, multi-scalar network of digital, spatial, and cultural exchanges. 

With meticulously crafted visual analyses, Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic tracks MAP’s research from 2022 to 2024, revealing its passion with architectural design, practice and synaesthetic imaging.  AI has emerged as a pivotal factor in architectural paradigms through a methodology that MAP tags as “recursive formalism”. Their studio has forged this neo-ecological approach prioritizing adaptation, complexity, and a post-disciplinary synthesis - refracting 21st century architectural design while holding the exigencies of human agency and land use at its core. 

Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic is an indispensable resource for those seeking to navigate—and redefine—the promise of architectural practices in an era of accelerated digital transformation. 

Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic
MAP-Metropolitan Architectural Practice

Book Size: 9.37 X 6.62 in
Format: Landscape
Pages: 272
Language: English
Edition: Hardcover in Slipcase (978-1-964490-20-5), Limited Edition Hardcover in Box with three signed prints (978-1-964490-05-2)