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机器学习、人工智能以及最终数学的范式转变使架构师能够通过数据的视角解决复杂的系统和跨尺度问题。除了这些转变所提供的设计可能性之外，随着建筑学科界限的变化，他们需要重新思考设计工作室可以是什么。Certain Measures是一家以计算、ML和AI为基本媒介，设计人类、机器和自然通过数据互动的共享世界的工作室。通过一系列的案例研究，以及从他的书《构想：建筑，数学，文化》中提取的批判性和历史性的框架，Witt将分享计算，虚构，数据可视化和建筑的交叉实践如何增加设计的可能性，以想象一个更美好的明天。

Paradigm shifts in ML, AI, and ultimately mathematics are allowing architects to tackle complex systemic and trans-scalar problems through the lens of data. Beyond the design possibilities such shifts afford, as the disciplinary boundaries of architecture mutate they demand a rethinking of what a design office can be. Certain Measures is a studio that takes computation, ML, and AI as fundamental media to design a shared world in which humans, machines, and nature interact through data. Through a series of case studies, as well as a critical and historical framework drawn from his book Formulations: Architecture, Mathematics, Culture, Witt will share how intersecting practices of computation, fiction, data visualization, and architecture can multiply the possibilities of design to imagine a more verdant tomorrow.

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形态学和类型学是建筑传统上从生物学中汲取的东西，是一种仿生学。大数据或大模型使我们能够通过算法来逼近更深层次的生物学结构。然而，数据驱动的设计和制造只适用于生物生命的某些方面(大量的原子和分子，自我再现性)，而不适用于其他方面(热力学第二定律);具有讽刺意味的是，这种对生物生命的数字模拟有可能加速地球上生命系统走向熵化的进程。我们是否应该在数据驱动的过程中重新引入“生命的噪音”，从而按照生物规律来思考和生产建筑?本讲座将探讨建筑与基础生物学概念之间的一些联系，并介绍弗吉尼亚大学设计工作室的成果。

Morphology and typology are what architecture traditionally takes from biology, a sort of biomimicry. Big Data or Big Model has enabled us to approximate deeper structures of biology through algorithms. Yet, data-driven design and manufacturing map onto some aspects of biological life (the exceedingly large number of atoms and molecules, self-reproducibility) and not others (the second law of thermodynamics);  ironically, this digital mimicking of biological life threatens to accelerate the process of life systems on earth towards entropy. Should we reintroduce the “noise of life” into data-driven processes so as to think and  produce  architecture in tune with biological laws? This lecture will  examine some connections between  architecture  and  foundational biological concepts and introduce the results of a design studio at the University of Virginia.

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讲座将试图阐明某些当代文化和政治进程对建筑学科的影响。反之亦然:面对某些文化进程，如后真理、民粹主义和身份政治，建筑如何从更多的技术实践和后人类情感的重新定位中获得能动性。COVID - 19和乌克兰战争成为标志着后现代/后结构主义文化结束的里程碑，后现代/后结构主义文化自20世纪70年代以来在建筑和其他艺术学科中盛行。

AZPML过去几年的工作并不是仅仅作为一个例子，而会成为即将到来的变化的索引。

The lecture will try to articulate the implications that certain contemporary cultural and political processes have on the discipline. And viceversa: how the discipline could acquire agency in the face of certain cultural processes such as post-truth, populism and identity politics, from a reorientation towards more technical practices and post-human sensibilities. COVID 19 and the war in Ukraine become the milestones that mark the end of the postmodern/poststructuralist culture that has been prevalent since the 1970s in architecture and other artistic disciplines.

AZPML's work of the past few years will be presented not so much as an example, but as an index of the changes to come.

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在大自然中发现的灵感，加上计算设计和机器人制造的进步，以一种令人惊讶的方式挑战了现有的建筑方法，甚至指出了设计和建造的全新可能性。生物学提供了几乎取之不尽的形式、结构和过程的原则，这些原则可以转移到建筑中。与此同时，运算深刻地改变了建筑行业。

本次讲座将展示如何通过大自然的灵感，挖掘数字技术在建筑和施工中的全部潜力，从而超越现有规划程序的数字化和现有建筑过程的自动化，实现面向未来的真正一体化的计算设计和施工。

Inspiration found in nature, together with advances in computational design and robotic fabrication, challenge existing approaches in architecture in a surprising manner, or even point out completely new possibilities for design and construction. Biology offers an almost inexhaustible reservoir of principles of form, structure and process that can be transferred to architecture. At the same time, computation profoundly transforms the building industry.

The lecture will showcase ways of tapping the full potential of digital technologies in architecture and construction through inspiration by nature, in order to go beyond the mere digitalization of established planning procedures and the automation of existing building processes towards truly integrative computational design and construction for future-proof architecture.

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栖居似乎是梦境与现实、心理表征和具体实践的复杂纠缠。在这里，它在数字时代的演变的问题将从三个层面进行探讨。首先，随着数字技术的兴起，它给建筑环境的具体体验带来了哪些变化？2019冠状病毒病大流行有助于揭示其中的一些问题，但整体情况仍远未明朗。其次，这些变化与这种通常被称为向“后人类”状态过渡的对人类的不同理解有什么关系？第三，最不容易被发现的问题是：这些转变会导致新的空间组织和项目的出现吗？将要展开的争论的中心是栖居和人类主体性的构成之间有着深刻的联系。因此，生活在数字时代与当代社会中人类的进化问题是分不开的。

Dwelling appears as a complex entanglement of dreams and realities, mental representations, and concrete practices. Here the question of its evolution in the digital age is approached at three levels. Firstly, what are the changes that it brings to the concrete experience of the built environment that have accompanied the rise of digital technologies? The Covid19 pandemic has contributed to reveal some of them, but the full picture is still far from clear. Secondly, how are these changes related to this different understanding of the human that is often dubbed as a transition towards a ‘posthuman’ condition? Thirdly, the least evident to address: will these shifts lead to the emergence of new spatial organizations and programs? Central to the argument which will be developed is that there is a deep relation between dwelling and the constitution of human subjectivity. Dwelling in the digital age is thus inseparable from the question of the evolution of what it means to be human in our contemporary societies.

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本次讲座将讨论当前机器学习技术在视觉艺术中使用的一些方面，并提出GAN生成的图像或生成式人工智能生成的图像正在诱导西方艺术的一些古老(长期被贬低)类别的秘密复兴，例如模仿和风格。

this lecture will discuss some aspects of the current use of machine learning technologies in the visual arts, and suggest that GAN generated images, or images generated by generative AI, are inducing a surreptitious revival of some ancestral (and long disparaged) categories of western art, such as imitation, and style.

Page from Sebastiano Serlio’s On Antiquities (Francesco Marcolini da Forli, 1540).

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第一讲：现实/Reality        

第二讲：审美泛化/Aestheticisation  

第三讲：模仿/Mimesis

第四讲：生、死Life/Death

第五讲：忧郁症/Melancholia

第六讲：归属感/Belonging

关于我们今天所处的先进技术世界，先进的理论能告诉我们什么？该系列重新审视了两本关于建筑理论的开创性书籍，《建筑审美泛化》（麻省理工学院，1999 年）和《伪装》（麻省理工学院，2006 年），这两本书涉及Adorno, Bataille, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Butler, Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, Kristeva, Lacan and Zizek的工作。该系列讲座试图通过这种方式为当代关于人工智能、神经科学、虚拟现实、交互式设计和其他问题的辩论开辟新的见解。

What can theory tell us about the advanced technological world in which we operate today? The series revisits two seminal books on architectural theory, The Anaesthetics of Architecture (MIT, 1999) and Camouflage (MIT, 2006), which engage with the work of Adorno, Bataille, Baudrillard, Benjamin, Butler, Deleuze, Derrida, Freud, Kristeva, Lacan and Zizek. In so doing it seeks to open up fresh insights into contemporary debates about artificial intelligence, neuroscience, virtual reality, interactive design and other concerns.

Architectural DigitalFUTURES

“建筑数字未来”（Architectural DigitalFUTURES）于2011年由同济大学建筑与城市规划学院（CAUP）与上海建筑数字建造工程技术研究中心（SFAB）发起，依托Architectural DigitalFUTURES协会，国际建筑师协会，中国建筑学会，国家土建结构预制装配化工程技术研究中心，上海市建筑学会等学术平台，联合全球知名学者、建筑师、设计师及相关企、事业单位和学术媒体共同组织，形成了线上、线下一体化的教育平台。活动涵盖讲座、会议、工作坊和展览等。如今，Architectural DigitalFUTURES作为一个全球性建筑知识交流共同体，以www.digitalfutures.world为平台，鼓励全球建筑知识的传承与创新、合作与交流，重点关注数字化设计理论、技术以及人工智能算法、机器人建造等在建成环境领域的科学研究。