Chicago architect Stephen Coorlas hopes to build an open-air pavilion he designed using the AI art generator Midjourney in Chicago’s North Shore area.
Source: Coorlas Architecture
The Architects Designing Surreal Worlds with AI
The AI art generator Midjourney is the favored tool in architecture. And designers are using it to conjure up their wildest dreams.
Imagine a library made from yarn. Or skyscrapers in the style of Salvador Dalí. Or simply your ideal home, as realistic or fantastical as you like. All it takes is the prompt “/imagine” followed by a few words of description — say, “a neofuturist villa made of concrete and bamboo” — in order for artificial intelligence-powered art generator Midjourney to summon images of whatever you ask for, in under a minute.
Several developers rolled out text-to-image AI programs to the public last year, including Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. These tools, which were trained on vast amounts of online images — leading to copyright lawsuits — became major hits with general audiences, who put these programs through their paces. Amateur designers are using AI assistants to realize fan art, stock “photos,” and a painting that won an arts competition.