{"id":110330,"date":"2024-04-10T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/?post_type=metro_viewpoint&#038;p=110330"},"modified":"2024-04-10T13:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T17:00:46","slug":"the-landscape-architecture-ai-buffer-zone","status":"publish","type":"metro_viewpoint","link":"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/viewpoints\/the-landscape-architecture-ai-buffer-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Landscape Architecture\u2013AI Buffer Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-sandow-article-header article-header\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-header\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1575\" height=\"883\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7.jpg\" alt=\"AI generated midjourney rendering\" class=\"wp-image-110331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7.jpg 1575w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7-1024x574.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler7-1536x861.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1575px) 100vw, 1575px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeff Cutler, founder of\nVancouver-based\nlandscape architecture\nfirm space2place design,\ncreated this rendering\nusing AI image generator\nMidjourney.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group article-header_intro none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"article-date\" aria-label=\"Post Date\">April 10, 2024<\/p>\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading size-large\">The Landscape Architecture\u2013AI Buffer Zone<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_meta is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<p class=\"summary size-regular\">How long can the idiosyncrasies of landscape architecture keep the promise and peril of artificial intelligence at bay?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-sandow-byline byline size-regular\"><span>By: <\/span><a href=\"\/tag\/zach-mortice\">Zach Mortice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"social-share\"><li><a 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class=\"size-regular\"><strong>AS PART OF HIS RESEARCH <\/strong>into <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/tag\/landscape\/\">landscape architecture<\/a> and digital technology, Aidan Ackerman, landscape architecture professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, has been examining landscape design magazines and periodicals going back to the 1980s to see how they conceptualized and predicted the integration of landscape with information technology. He found that the wish list back then more or less included a system that could understand the interaction of living elements in an ecosystem, visualize and simulate it, then predict future conditions. While this system still hasn\u2019t arrived, it has more than a passing resemblance to landscape technologists\u2019 hopes for the convergence of <a href=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/tag\/ai\/\">AI<\/a> and landscape architecture today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As such, Ackerman sees the quest to integrate AI into landscape architecture not as a revolutionary break with the past, but as a long and frustrated wrestling match to corral two disparate subjects: computational design and living, biotic matter (the key differentiator of landscape architecture from other design disciplines). Then and now, \u201cthe fundamental problem with modeling and visualization when it comes to a landscape is that we\u2019re trying to turn [landscapes] into objects,\u201d he says, \u201cbut in reality, these are living systems.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column article-header_content is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:50%\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote size-regular\"><blockquote><p><p>Is cheaper design, even if it\u2019s available to a wider audience, a good thing?\u00a0<\/p><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1244\" height=\"829\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler2.jpg\" alt=\"AI generated midjourney rendering\" class=\"wp-image-110332\" style=\"width:1441px;height:960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler2.jpg 1244w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler2-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1244px) 100vw, 1244px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Environmental scientists\nand ecologists have been\nusing machine learning\nmuch longer than\nlandscape architects. But\nlandscape designers can\ncomplement this work by\ncontributing AI visualization\ntools to illustrate\nprojects for broad public\naudiences and policy\nforms, says Phil Fernberg,\ndirector of digital\ninnovation at OJB. \u201cWe are\nexpertise siloed,\u201d he says.\n\u201cWe need to partner with\nthese folks and build\nsomething together that\nwould have never\notherwise been built.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Environmental scientists and ecologists have been using machine learning much longer than landscape architects. But landscape designers can complement this work by contributing AI visualization tools to illustrate projects for broad public audiences and policy forms, says Phil Fernberg, director of digital innovation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ojb.com\/\">OJB<\/a>. \u201cWe are expertise siloed,\u201d he says. \u201cWe need to partner with these folks and build something together that would have never otherwise been built.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cUnlike other tools that are really complex to operate, like BIM software, AI is not hard for the layperson to operate,\u201d says landscape architecture professor Aidan Ackerman. \u201cThere is no skill development needed.\u201d Absent this baseline layer of technical skill, and eventually the strata of skills above it, design could become a purely curatorial process, selecting options presented by AI, de-skilling the workforce. Pictured: Midjourney renderings by Jeff Cutler.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">And while AI might be able to understand the relationship between a photovoltaic panel and a power grid, unpacking how a tree (responsible for shade, habitats, the nutrient cycle, phytoremediation, evapotranspiration, and more) works within a landscape is beyond its grasp.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As one of the smallest, most misunderstood design professions, stuck in the middle of the Venn diagram between much larger and more visible fields, landscape architecture is often isolated (or shielded) from disruptive technological change.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1344\" height=\"896\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler5.jpg\" alt=\"AI generated midjourney rendering\" class=\"wp-image-110333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler5.jpg 1344w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler5-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler5-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler5-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1344px) 100vw, 1344px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cUnlike other tools that are\nreally complex to operate,\nlike BIM software, AI is not\nhard for the layperson to\noperate,\u201d says landscape\narchitecture professor\nAidan Ackerman. \u201cThere is\nno skill development\nneeded.\u201d Absent this\nbaseline layer of technical\nskill, and eventually the\nstrata of skills above it,\ndesign could become a\npurely curatorial process,\nselecting options\npresented by AI, de-skilling\nthe workforce. Pictured:\nMidjourney renderings by\nJeff Cutler.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Landscape architects sit in the midst of ecology, gardening, architecture, botany, planning, and environmental science. They\u2019re a woolly and heterogeneous bunch that might be hyper-focused on planting patterns in neighborhood parks, the biodiversity of thousands of acres, or the stormwater capacity of concrete infrastructure. This diffusion makes them difficult for any single technological change to consume. As such, there have been very few digital tools created specifically for landscape architects.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Instead, landscape architects have been making their own tools and adapting existing ones to their needs. Anya Domlesky is the director of research at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swagroup.com\/\">SWA Group<\/a> and runs the XL Lab, where SWA landscape designer Shimin Cao and University of Southern California lecturer Xun Liu trained algorithms on Google Street View images of Houston, so that it can analyze and score streetscapes for walkability, bikeability, tree cover, greenscapes, and more. The eventual goal is for AI to generate streetscape designs. With SWA associate Liqiu Xu, XL Lab is also using ChatGPT to devise planting pairings, generate site analysis and precedent studies, and create profiles for potential visitors to a real park site. Jeff Cutler, founder of Vancouver landscape architecture firm <a href=\"https:\/\/space2place.ca\/people\">space2place design<\/a>, has been using Autodesk Forma, which uses AI to define microclimates on project sites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Given the complexity and dynamic nature of living matter, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssa.ccny.cuny.edu\/blog\/people\/zihao-zhang\/\">Zihao Zhang<\/a>, landscape architecture professor at City College of New York, advocates for using AI to develop landscape design not as a discrete product but as a process, a \u201csubscription basis\u201d for \u201ccontinuous engagement with the land,\u201d he says. He\u2019s interested in using AI to \u201cco-produce\u201d outcomes, he explains, and he feels that handing agency over to AI will allow it to solve problems in ways humans never considered. This is, of course, diametrically opposed to how AI is being applied in landscape architecture today. The adoption of image generation platforms like Midjourney and DALL-E&nbsp;threatens a \u201cproliferation of the picturesque\u201d that reinforces a vision of landscape architecture as a predominantly aesthetic practice, Zhang says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1635\" height=\"1090\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12.jpg\" alt=\"AI generated midjourney rendering\" class=\"wp-image-110334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12.jpg 1635w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Midjourney-images-jeff-cutler12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1635px) 100vw, 1635px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Because landscape\narchitecture is a service\nindustry subservient to\nmarket forces, equitable\nsolutions that prize human\nwell-being over labor and\ncost expediency will have\nto come in the form of\nhard-fought regulatory\ncontrols. As such,\ndesigners must assert the\nneed to train algorithms on\nhuman values. \u201cIt\u2019s really\nup to us to say, \u2018What do\nyou optimize when you\ntrain this model?\u2019\u201d says\nZihao Zhang, landscape\narchitecture professor.\nPictured: Midjourney\nrendering by Jeff Cutler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">And while these meta-collage images, with their surreal technical facility and stilted recapitulation of popular culture, are nowhere close to explaining themselves as something that could be built or installed, academics say we may be only a few years from being able to plug in material, dimensional, and programmatic constraints in AI and get something back we can actually make. Any delay beyond that will be the likely incursion of landscape architecture\u2019s awkward marriage to digital tools. Likewise, what\u2019s keeping us from Design Skynet is similarly rooted in the biotic world. To create buildable plans, AI will need plan and section drawings to train on, which, as often-proprietary information, exist in hard-copy paper plans, locked up in file cabinets. They\u2019ll have to be hauled out, scanned, and uploaded. \u201cThat\u2019s not low-hanging fruit,\u201d says Domlesky.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">As the director of digital innovation at OJB, Phil Fernberg is using whole-language text models to develop planting plans, and using parametric design engines to organize them in space. From there, the goal is to connect this design to the material supply chain and vendors. When this process is applied to residential projects, Fernberg foresees a broad consumer push in what is already the largest single segment of the landscape design industry. \u201cHow do we connect a bunch of readily available data sets to advance design and help it reach more people than it ever could?\u201d he says. \u201cBecause there\u2019s way more people that own homes and landscapes than there are landscape architects to help them, or that they can afford.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Automated landscape design sounds like an unimpeachable deal for small clients. For labor, there\u2019s the eternal question of who collects the surplus that results from these new efficiencies. Is cheaper design, even if it\u2019s available to a wider audience, a good thing?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-3 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_esf_la_a_post_industrial_park_designed_for_birds_3e77f780-0df0-4362-8207-82222aa0e14e_AA-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Ian Tahmin created this\nrendering (using\nMidjourney. His prompt? \u201c\/\nimagine a post-industrial\npark designed for birds.\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\" style=\"object-fit:cover;object-position:50% 50%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/metropolismag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/ME_24_0203_AIL_Neil-Leach-Fragment-of-ultra-contemporary-minimalist-house-with-f321ce84-cde1-4ba0-b62f-81ebe2d7b327-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Neil Leach created this\nrendering using\nMidjourney V5.2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group none\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">Probably not, says Neil Leach, architecture professor at Florida International University, who studies AI in design. \u201cThe main driver of change is going to be economics. What\u2019s cheapest?\u201d he says. \u201cThe professions are going to be eroded by these new technologies. Because it gets easier to do these things, the temptation is to drop fees. It\u2019s going to reduce the amount of money coming into the profession.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">AI could collapse the landscape architecture labor market, and its system of occupational licensure with it. Of course, Leach reminds us that AI is \u201ca tool. It has no agency. It\u2019s the unscrupulous employers who are looking to cut costs.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">\u201cThe elephant in the room is that we live in a capitalist society,\u201d says Zhang.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"size-regular\">The best-case scenario for landscape architecture is that its idiosyncrasy and maladjustment give it time to join and build coalitions that can force AI in design to respond to the needs of people, not markets. \u201cThe way we receive AI is not going to fit our profession in any way,\u201d says Ackerman. \u201cI think that might be our advantage here.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"comment size-regular\">Would you like to comment on this article? 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