TALAMANA · A WAY IN · ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN STUDENTS
Architecture and Design Students
Use AI in studio without surrendering spatial reasoning, process or authorship.
The questions this way in answers
- Why did the model change the room when I asked it to change one quality?
- How do I iterate without generating blindly?
- How do I show my decisions in a crit?
Routes
- The image machine, in five minutes — 3 ideas, about 10 minutes. Know what a generated image is, which of the two starts you need, and why one change at a time.
- From fifty images to five decisions — 8 ideas, about 30 minutes. Run a controlled experiment, read an image for failure, and defend the chain in crit.
- A complete path — 5 ideas, about 19 minutes.
Where it starts
- Text-to-image vs image-to-image — Choosing between the two modes is really choosing how much of your source to keep.
- Change one thing at a time — Run the same request twice, because AI tools add a little randomness of their own.
- Fifty images is gambling — Generating fifty images and selecting the closest one is gambling, not iteration.
- Iterate like an experiment — A brief revised in five places at once gives you a new result and no knowledge.
- Visual forensics — Every generated image is a witness to be cross-examined, not a reference to be trusted.
- An honest, strong portfolio — A hidden process reads as deception once discovered, and a shown one reads as authorship.
- The iteration log — The log is the artefact, and the images are its evidence.
- A picture of a plan is not a plan — A generated plan is a grid of colours and cannot be measured.
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