Architect Patrik Schumacher observes:"We are witnessing now that young architects and schools of architecture are shifting into engineering research and programming. This has been going on for over 10 years.
Recognising the advances in computer processing capacity early on, especially in animation, he understood the potential of using computers to process design parameters that could generate architectural forms. Computing power plays a big role in processing all this information and then generating design. With advances in artificial intelligence , could architects and designers be replaced by computers?
"A further aspect is that intuitive capacities locked up in experienced architects become unlocked and multiply. This also promises the insightful, explicit grasp and rationalisation of tacit intuitive capacities," he says. He is also very enthusiastic about the potential of the metaverse - the online virtual realm."We are already engaged with a number of ambitious metaverse projects. All firms, all institutions, including all universities, and all significant events will exist in the metaverse, at least partially."Still, he does not believe that AI will replace architects or designers any time soon.