Join Katherine Lambert and Christiane Robbins, MAP Studio’s founders, for a panel conversation celebrating "Architecture x Architecture: A Dialectic", their new book exploring how generative AI and machine vision are changing the way architecture is imagined, represented, and understood. Featuring projects developed between 2022 and 2024, the book captures a pivotal moment in architectural culture, when synthetic images began to shape not only how architecture looks, but also how it thinks.

Rather than treating AI as simply a new tool, "Architecture x Architecture" considers it as a broader visual and cultural system—one that is influencing architectural language, taste, process, and perception in profound ways. Central to the book is MAP’s concept of “neo-ecologies,” a way of understanding architecture as part of a larger and constantly shifting network of digital systems, environmental conditions, spatial realities, and cultural forces. In this framework, architecture is not just a matter of buildings or objects, but an evolving interface shaped by images, technologies, data, and the broader contexts in which they circulate.

Through a series of visually rich studies, the book traces the emergence of generative AI in architecture and examines how rapidly it has become entangled with contemporary design practice. The conversation will explore the broader questions the book raises for architects, designers, and anyone interested in visual culture today: How do synthetic images shape architectural ideas? What kinds of beauty, bias, aspiration, or distortion do they produce? And how might these technologies influence not only workflows, but the values and assumptions embedded in the discipline itself?

Grounded in MAP’s interdisciplinary practice, "Architecture x Architecture: A Dialectic" offers a critical perspective on architecture at the intersection of AI-driven imaging, experimental design, and contemporary culture. It invites architects, students, theorists, and curious readers alike to reflect on how architecture is changing in response to new image-making systems—and what that shift may mean for the future of the field.

This panel offers an opportunity to engage those questions in conversation and to consider a body of work that documents a consequential moment in architecture’s evolving relationship to technology, representation, and design.