Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic: Map (Metropolitan Architectural Practice) (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781964490052)

Katherine Lambert is a neoteric director, media artist and academic whose cross-displinary practice spans visual imagining, digital media, video and design. As a founding partner of Metropolitan Architectural Practice (MAP) and Director of its research division, MAP Studio, she has cultivated a body of work that redefines the boundaries of spatial, visual, and cultural production. Robbins' work interrogates the intersections of material and digital realms, leveraging the transformative potential of emerging technologies to foster innovative solutions for sustainable and socially conscious directives. Her practice engages with the disruptive impact of emerging technologies on contemporary landscape, urbanism and interdisciplinary design practices, an ethos that resonates with her latest project, Thresholds of the Frontier. Created in response to advent of generative AI, the project explores the "speed of thought", the discomforting duality of visual seduction and unexpected R/L challenges posed by artificial intelligence in its many guises: from machine vision to synthetic cognition and sensation, and from the macro-economics of machine learning to the intimate realities of everyday resourcing. Drawing on concepts akin to those of theorists Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, her projects examine the unexpected incongruities posed by gen AI + machine vision. The accelerating impact of AI technologies reflects Virilio's position that speed reconfigures time, space, and human experience. Robbins' work is a visualization of such dromological effects, where the speed of AI generation disrupts conventions of architectural and design practices, inventing new ways of understanding spatiality and identity.

Christiane Robbins is a neoteric director, media artist and academic whose cross-displinary practice spans visual imagining, digital media, video and design. As a founding partner of Metropolitan Architectural Practice (MAP) and Director of its research division, MAP Studio, she has cultivated a body of work that redefines the boundaries of spatial, visual, and cultural production. Robbins' work interrogates the intersections of material and digital realms, leveraging the transformative potential of emerging technologies to foster innovative solutions for sustainable and socially conscious directives. Her practice engages with the disruptive impact of emerging technologies on contemporary landscape, urbanism and interdisciplinary design practices, an ethos that resonates with her latest project, Thresholds of the Frontier. Created in response to advent of generative AI, the project explores the "speed of thought", the discomforting duality of visual seduction and unexpected R/L challenges posed by artificial intelligence in its many guises: from machine vision to synthetic cognition and sensation, and from the macro-economics of machine learning to the intimate realities of everyday resourcing. Drawing on concepts akin to those of theorists Jean Baudrillard and Paul Virilio, her projects examine the unexpected incongruities posed by gen AI + machine vision. The accelerating impact of AI technologies reflects Virilio's position that speed reconfigures time, space, and human experience. Robbins' work is a visualization of such dromological effects, where the speed of AI generation disrupts conventions of architectural and design practices, inventing new ways of understanding spatiality and identity.