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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”

Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic

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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 reframes the conceptual and visual language of architecture, tracing its evolution through the transformative lenses of machine vision and generative AI. Since 2022, MAP Studio has engaged with digital technologies that have not only reshaped architectural imaging but have fundamentally altered how architects conceive, iterate, and materialize spatial form. 

This visionary book by introduces the concept of neo-ecologies—a dynamic, evolving framework in which architecture functions as an adaptive interface within a constantly shifting digital, spatial, and cultural matrix. No longer confined to built form, architecture is redefined as an intricate network of algorithmic, visual, speculative and cultural exchanges. 

With meticulously crafted visual analyses, Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic tracks the proliferation of generative AI from 2022 to 2024, revealing its deep entwinement with architectural thought, design, practice and synaesthetic imaging. AI emerges as a contributor in reshaping architectural paradigms, forging a neo-ecological approach that prioritizes adaptation, complexity, and a post-disciplinary synthesis refracting 21st century architectural design. 

A seminal contribution by MAP, this book integrates architectural discourse, computational theory, digital media studies, design and visual culture to propose a vital trajectory for architects, scholars, and practitioners. Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic is an indispensable resource for those seeking to navigate—and redefine—the future 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: 248
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)