Neural Architecture and paradigmatic shifts. New paradigms have the habit to emerge when the existing paradigm has run its course – posing the question: what is the current paradigm? But, let’s focus on what Neural Architecture brings to the table in regards to a substantial Innovation in the Architecture discipline. For one it critically interrogates the role of the architect in the creative process of architecture design. Neural Architecture embraces the possibility of design methods that are deeply informed by existing information in the form of databases and understands that the artificial modeling of neural processes can aid in harnessing the information in Big Data. Interestingly the results do not resemble historic examples, and thus the methodology is not a repetition of Postmodern tropes, such as collage, quotes, and ironic assemblies. The results rather construct a frame around aspects of defamiliarization and estrangement, in that we are able to recognize certain features, without it being a copy. We are still at the very beginning of this new paradigm of architectural production, the first built examples are currently emerging41. Many specific problems need to be solved, such as the relationship between interior and exterior as Neural Networks based on images are only able to solve one of the two at a time. Or the problem of utilizing 3D models in this paradigm. Solutions are under development as these lines are written, and I look forward how this new paradigm will impact the built environment in the upcoming years. #artificialintelligence #architecture #design #agency #authorship #MachineLearning #neuralnetworks #posthuman #postdigital #machinehallucination #neuralarchitecture #paradigmshift #weird_realism #semantic_information #dataset (at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) https://www.instagram.com/p/CRIC4pritkL/?utm_medium=tumblr