Here is the prompt for ChatGPT Please create a table that breaks down an interior architecture photograph composition into the following key elements, where each of these key elements is a column: Composition, Camera Angle, Style, Room Type, Focal Point, Textures, Detail, Color Palette, Brand, Lighting, Location, Time of Day, Mood, Architecture
I like how the videos insinuate that architecture and interiors are not based on plans. As an Archviz designer, I can tell you that precision is crucial for creating these visuals, and you must follow the plans of the architects. Most of my clients request private competition images, so sharing confidential plans with an AI isn't possible and would be highly unprofessional. Adding an organic pillar that doesn't serve the structure of the building is not architecture. Also, the visuals made on Midjourney have all the same kind of style, not any soul. The goal of an image during an architecture competition is to stand-out and to explain perfectly the concept. The realism is not always the final goal. Please stop saying that this is art. A designer, a painter or an architect fully controlled everything, on Midjourney you have zero controlled and everyone
To me, there are many issues with this AI (Machine Learning), but most of them are going to the people who develop and the people who miss use it. As mentioned in another comment, comparing this to websites such as Pinterest, which makes everybody a designer, Boy I can tell you how many contractors that hire me don't even use an Architect, because, 'They can design'. As an Arch Viz artist, I've seen our industry hit many times by new technologies that are cool and all but the people misused always for a quick profit. Today everyone is a rendering person. most of them are really bad, but since the invention of Computer generated images, all these images lost their value instantly. If you are an Architect and want to copy someone else design, I mean get inspiration from someone else, yes, this tool is great. it can fill your brain with 1000 copies of someone else work. Then why do you need to be creative?, and push your boundaries when the software can do it for you. I don't know. Yea, I am not excited in the right way for this. for sure, I will learn it and use it, But paying money to a company that has sweatshops in some poor countries using very low pay workers for data entry and entry and content review to make better software that will take all weight to something that was hand made, feels weird to me, I guess I could say the same of the Car, the telephone, the computer and so on. yea, we pay a price for advancing technology, for sure. You know I started following your channel just for the craft you showcase, the way you combine software and techniques to create something different and unique. How you had a 'vision or inspiration' in your brain and try to express it in different media (Which is very different to what mid-journey or any AI does) . Your work and the way to create is inspiring, and that earns mines and many other people's respect. This AI future seems plain and none inspiring for sure, to me at least.
You made a valid point with your words.(AI) I dislike it and am terrified of it since I am an architect. Where do the ideas come from? They want to slack off the brain. The architect's design concept now has that as its new objective.
Yes I agree. The point of an architect is to have a human being interpret your needs and actually (in theory) create something new and innovative. With this technology, a developer can create floor plans in 5 minutes, make super attractive renders, and build a building that makes them a ton of money and does nothing in terms of architecture. These tools seem to allow non-designers to feel like architects because they create the same looking final product as an architect would create, but it almost seems soul-less...which would make sense considering it is AI. Also just the concept of inputting a prompt where you have to specify what kind if already existing style you want it in inherently removes the ability to innovate and find your own voice as a designer. The scary part is when developers consider that what AI can create is good enough for them to build a building and make a quick buck. Will save them lots of money on hiring an architect for the design, and they'll have a building that looks decent. 🤷🏽♂️
Great video as always, this channel needs more recognition, video shows the effort and interest that you are putting in. As for the topic of it, to be honest as a very young architect just starting after a degree that taught us other stuff, not even preparing us with the reality that was known before and now that we are dealing with even newer things it is really frightening and kinda existential to be honest xd. It really needs some things to be organized and established for me at least to cope with it. Like Heidegger said about humans categorizing the world so that they can understand it and feel safe to live/dwell on it, its kinda the same now for me and i am in the process of finding understanding into the AI thing that is being implemented to our lives not only to architecture as a job. I really like how confident and positive you are about this and the courage you have to understand it and work with it as it is even now that its kinda chaotic about the rules and stuff. Thanks for sharing Steve!
Excellent video, as a Landscape Architect at the end of my career, I see this as a tool that is now out of the box and its knowledge of its existence cannot be denied. In our industry, I can see packages of work of each phase no longer taking 2 weeks for a lead and two other designers/CAD operatives, but two days for one designer. We will become an industry of interpretation of what works for the needs of people within space/place and environmental considerations. A lot more meetings concerning design, and prompt engineering, less on functional (ie Ai doing all the CAD structural drawings) rules bound construction drawings.
To me, the problem with AI in Archviz is the consistency between images, its hard to achieve and complicated to integrate in a workflow with clients feedbacks and changes and all. It's more of a cool way to make a moodboard than a real production HD render. But curious to see where this is going in the next few months.
I agree! that is what happens with the current state of AI, but I think this will be a thing of the past in a few months. Also, each image generated by midjourney has a specific seed and ID, and if you repeat that ID when changing words, you will get the same (or almost the same) project/image
@@ShowItBetter I'm waiting for the moment when AI will be integrated in render engines or 3D software with recognition of faces/textures and details. That will be the game changer in our field
@@Zarakla this will surely happen, but eventually AI will reach a point where it doesn't need us anymore. It will have the entire detailed knowledge of any creative process.
@@Hadi2360 Yes and No, Technical detail and rules yes, not the artistic part and the ability to choose between different options. Our jobs will be to guide IA toward the result we want, not the opposite.
I just don't like that it does the only fun part for you. I'd prefer to make my own concepts and the AI do the drawings. It would be fun if I could just input my sketches and it would generate a Revit model... So far it's doing the opposite. I also don't want clients coming in with whatever they generated and asking me to turn it into reality. I just feel that communication will become more frustrating.
“Ethically”? None of this exists without ripping off other artists and photographers. There is no ethical way of doing this lazy bs. Creative power does not belong in the hands of the undedicated.
Copyright be damned, Oscar Niemeyer mentioned in this video, Zaha Hadid in several other Video prompts. These people gave their life and personal time to hone their skills.
Thanks for this video.... have to admit all this sh*t is really unsettling for me! If Pinterest made every client a 'designer', I can only imagine what this will do once it improves / becomes more mainstream.
pretty cool man. As an Architect (studied from 1998-2003 in Mexico), this is pretty interesting to blend the traditional paper-pencil tools with the contemporary AI and get the best of both worlds :)
solo dire que reemplazar tus metodos creativos con una ia solo hara que creatividad muera, con el tiempo no seras capas de siquiera imaginar un espacio una fachada sin usar las IA...lo digo xq se lo complejo que es ser un arq diseñador esto es por que hay muy pocos que se dedican a esto, gran herramienta para experimentar variaciones de tu propio trabajo , por otro lado me parece un plagio aberrante a los trabajos hechos por otros artistas cuando se usa de referencia, hay que encontrar la manera de crecer conjunto con las IA pero mucho cuidado pues esto matara tu creatividad
Curious to learn how we can load specific SketchUp/Revit models and real-world site photography into these programs to create ACCURATE on-site renderings...
Please be VERY cautious w/Midjourney, everyone. The issues w/copyright also apply to anything you create. Every image you create is “feeding” the dataset from which it “learns”. So portions of your render can easily appear in a complete stranger’s render. There is no privacy or ownership! They own all of your images and the free version immediately makes your image a searchable part of its dataset. Imagine making a site plan render for a client with high security needs and not only is it instantly available for viewing by anyone/everyone who wants to view it, parts of this plan can appear in a stranger’s plan. It’s very dangerous. The capabilities of Midjourney are impressive but, personally, the privacy, security and ownership issues will keep me far away until they can be resolved.
good. im all for collective knowledge. imagine if scientists werent allowed to use other scientific finds because they are copyrighted, or imagine musicians not being able to sample other songs. i think copyright is the result of our current economic system and it doesn’t necessarily help us progress and create new and exciting stuff. I think all art (including architecture) is inspired from something that already exists, this is not a new concept
@@d6o9 I think you’re misunderstanding the thrust of my concern. It’s not simply about copyright. If I use a clients site plan to create a rendering, the private information of a person’s floor plan to their home, is now in the public sphere. That’s not a copyright issue, that’s a very real safety and privacy concern. I’d also have to disagree about copyright being only for the purposes of lining wallets. An artist, illustrator, photographer, etc. makes their living from the sale of their images. Without copyright, anyone and everyone can use them free of charge, destroying the livelihoods of all of these artists. Artists have to eat, too. Copyright is one of the only things protecting their means of income. You expect artists to create art without any compensation?
resuming achitecture to pure asthetics... this is not even close to be architecture. AI as a lot of potencial in architecture field, but this is not the way, this is simply nice images, nothing more.
Perfect tool for creating mood boards and very initial concepts. I don't think the construction industry will ever trust a floor plan or construction drawing made by AI. Ultimately, It's a tool to streamline our workflow.
I agree! With the state of Midjorney today. But if this has happened in a few months, I can't imagine what will happen in a few years. There are already 3d software like Spline where you type in what you want and AI will generate it. So, eventually it's going to get better to the point where we won't even notice. AI in 3d software, AI in rendering software, AI in Post production software....
@@ShowItBetter I do believe AI will indeed be eventually be used to create building floor plans. Once given the set parameters and rules of building codes, build area, floor limitations, required installations, it would make complete sense for AI in the near future to generate entire buildings floor plans (even at construction resolution), sections and elevations, within the set parameters relevant to your project and state, in seconds to minutes. It wouldn't be an image generator necessarily, but would be capable of generating every single building element in a way that would be ready to build, relevant to your local building codes. This would likely be a hybrid of fuzzy-logic, with flexible and inflexible parameters, combined with genuine AI.
@@jacobcurran7529 regarding the floor plans, i think us architects already possess powerful tools like grasshopper where we input our parameters and get proper generative plans , ( finch3d ). Which is why I think the industry will lean heavily towards parametric generative architecture rather than luck based AI. I may be horribly wrong, truly exciting times but I think we still have a few years to save our profession.
@@dududadadede96 Yes, I do agree with you. It is also fairly unlikely that a client is going to want to be radically surprised by a randomly generated floor plan. Perhaps we'll end up with a few cool tools that incorporate a touch of AI, to make our work-flow a tad more speedy.
@@jacobcurran7529 what do you mean by surprised? as far as i see a layout programs cannot develop in more than 5-6 design proposals and more often there is 1-2 that are superior by their efficiency. i dont see how it can surprise a client more than an ordinary plan.
the only problem is than just 1 image, you cant make 5 identical images of the same building, AI tools just are in concept stage at the moment. Definitely not to make final production renders.
If Ai achieves a level of complexity where it could analyze and consider each and every accumulated data from zoning, site analysis, land use and topography, human anthropometrics, structural design, availability of specifications and materials, available tech, psychology, project management and master planning, etc, etc... while customizing to the client's requirements and taste then yeah maybe in the more distant future, but this is by no means near the surface of what architects deal with.. I'm also an architect btw so I didn't just google these things up, but I can see how this tech can absolutely assist in the design process..
A lot of junior level architecture work is about toilet partitions and hardware schedules. At the moment this is just a wet dream, great for ideas and conversations, but don't /imagine that it will coordinate structure, services and energy use with building regulations and local materials.
Any second now, we will see AI, replacing the traditional draughtsman. I think probably sooner than two years time, AutoCAD and the rest will have implemented AI. What will be interesting as when the owner/customer is an AI
Everybody is saying right now "it won't replace rendering softwares", and that is "just a tool for the creative process", but with this tools constantly advancing won't you think it'll get there eventually? I mean with things like stable diffusion + control net we are already getting some control, what if they come up with intelligent masks for identifying elements to easily replace walls, floors, environments, etc mantaining general and consistent lightning of the scene, When that happens the next step will be for 3d or architecture softwares to implement this as a part of their own set of tools and everybody could be a proffesional archviz artist without having to have any understanding of photography whatsoever because AI will give you cinematic results within an instant. I think its kind naive to think this only will be "a tool" for the creative process
I love architecture, do different design work, and mid journey has been amazing since I don't have to spend the learning curve on the software to create something pretty close to what I want. Just wish it understood more, but I'm sure I'll wish the opposite soon lol
I have a specific query about using AI tools for interior design. If I have a 2D plan of a working office space, is it possible to use AI tools to create a furnishing design for that space? Also, do these tools help transform inspiration images created by midjouney into workshop drawings and scales?
At the moment rendering in MJ is still limited. If I want two windows on the left side of the room and the kitchen furniture on the right, it is almost impossible to achieve that. It lacks precision.
What recourse do we have against the people creating software to take our jobs away? Nothing. Just shut up, and subscribe so they can keep on improving their garbage and devaluing creative industries
Arch visuals are made for specific architectural projects with specifics design parameters and technical data (for specific location and plot/environment for example). Very impressive, but at this point that is useless. Only for entertainment.
Just because you give credit to someone doesn't mean you have the right to use their images. That's like stealing from a shop and then just saying it's fine because you say "Oh yeah I stole it from Wallgreens".
Using your own images to create a new one with the blend function is a very promising tool. It avoids copyright issues and still uses this incredible technology to forge a new image from existing material. I would say it's the most interesting tool of AI generative algorithms for true creatives.
I agree! I think the most interesting thing is using your own work to create new images. Its interesting to see how an AI trained model sees your work and how you can describe it as well. Hence the "describe" feature
@@ShowItBetter Definitely. Can't wait to see how it progresses! Especially in adding more controls, like editing only some parts of the image, or setting image weight when blending two.
Amazing video Steven! Experiencing with Midjourney for my designs gave me great concept ideas, however can I suggest maybe you can release a video about inspiring a design and creating 3D model like Tim Fu from Zaha Hadid Architects? Thank you!
The tool is cool and the result is amazing...but one thing that bothers me after using is it"s really boring to use and I feel like I didnt even do a single thing other than the initial idea. Is this really the direction of the art of picture making? Kinda sad.
it's not! but perhaps in a few months when we can integrate this much more into our workflow, a $10 subscription is not going to seem as much in comparison to current rendering software where the cheapest is $250
Super excited about what's to come! 🎉 feel like it will be a tool...just like photoshop didn't put photographers out of business but gave them a tool to make their photos even better
Photoshop does not generate images, as of now, only edits them so could never put photographers out of business. Ai Generates images, mostly by stealing original artists work and re mashing them, & will put photographers in certain niches out of work.
Great and helpful video! Would be even better if you slowed down, don’t rush…it’s a lot of info. I’d suggest not talking so fast and taking more time on examples. Otherwise brilliant
42 minutes later and I still can not figure out how to get the first step down -- drag a photo into the chat. Literally doesn't work for me. Someone have a secret? I am amazed by how unintuitive this is from the start.
Not mentioned was you need to Direct Message the Mid Journey Bot, which in itself took a few minutes to figure out and only because I was scanning his screen.
I do find your video very interesting but you are just talking too fast and not explaining clear enough step by step to achieve the resulted images.. Very hard to follow what you are talking about 😞
thx for the video, its very usefull, to be honest) just starting explore the ai-visualisation, and it looks preety usable for architecture even now on start)
When I was at design school we used Rotring ink pens on tracing paper which took forever. You worked on a drawing board and created perspectives using vanishing points lol. While I'm glad I learnt those techniques, I love and embrace all the new technologies. The time it saves and the insane quality of the output and the fact that you can try so many different iterations of an idea is game changing. I am super excited to get onboard this new AI evolution in the design industry. I'm 60 years old but I never want to stagnate or fall behind or become fixed in my ways. Bring it on I say lol, evolve or die.
Ah, yes. the two point perspective. That took me back. Complete with the makeshift architecture table, Im doing it with two thick treads, two wheel for rollers, one long ruler, and a triangular ruler. Those cool architect tables with fancy light is expensive. Then the multiple style of shading for the facades. small dotting that takes up the whole weeks, or thin lines that obscure other detailing. Fun stuff. My architecture teacher also forbade me to use CAD programs. All need to be done by pencils, then finish them up with multiple thickness of those Rotrings. A wall needs to be shortens by a couple inches? Redraw those multiple A2 pages of drawings. Today, my staff just need to press one button to render the stuff, and using library of template cads for new designs. The hardwork of two months with old style are getting done with couple of works today techs. Even down to my colleagues in civil engineering and project managements. They cant work without the help of stuff like Etab calculation or BIM. Its simply shortens the amount of work so we can efficiently handle many other stuff. I cant imagine what the future hold with cloud computing, AI concepting, VR realism, and many other stuff.
The public should remember that real architects are not just renderers...They create code-compliant sets of drawings from which a building for a client can be built. These drawings must adhere to building codes and zoning regulations often unique to the town or county a project is in. Omitting even a small dimension from a handrail or window can result in a costly change ordered over which an architect can get sued. Material science and the detailing of complex material systems that will last, not leak, survive the test of time, and not fail for a variety of reasons is an absolutely vital skill that an architect must bring to the table. Not only that, but the climate in which an architect is building will inform numerous iterations of how details are drawn and buildings are designed on technical and structural levels. Anyone who thinks this is outside of their purview as an architect is not an architect, but rather merely a designer or artist. That is fine, but let's not confuse someone who only knows how to conceptualize and render buildings with someone who is an architect that can actually deliver a built work to a client. Architecture is not a rendering of a curvy glass building in a field. If AI can help us speed up the conceptual and visual aspects of the design and drawing process then great. I used to absolutely hate the amount of time that had to get dedicated to producing professional grade renderings for commercial clients. If you didnt have time and sub-contracted it out it was very expensive and ate up your design fee. I know times have changed but just imagine that an older person like me is actually JEALOUS of AI, not scared or grumpy about it. But I'm not at all worried about AI taking our jobs. I think it will make them much easier and allow us to put energy into the aspects of project delivery that we want to instead of some of the tedious things that we all used to work 80hrs a week to try and finish.
Great video! Could you please share some of the prompts of the images you generated? It would be a great help with understanding how Midjourney works and how to get better precision of the results.
As amazing as all of this AI technology is. What this is doing for design and architecture, interior design, fashion, design, art, etc. is that it is simply "generating" something it isn't actually creating something. Meaning this isnt original. It's just recreating(generating) something that's already been done..
So while midjurney creates increadible nice images, i would like to have options like Controlnet for midjurney. another Problem is, that midjurney cant be used from big architectural companys, because the content is placed somewhere, somehow in the internet, visible to everyone .. everywhere.. Thats why i rather would focus on stable diffusion, which seems to get comparabel results using optimised prompts, but can be installed localy, can be trained on your specialised style, and moreover now can use Controlnet to bring your sketch to live in an unbeleavable good way
In the creative field our jobs are never secure, for sure the pace is quickening every year. I remember complaining when I was doing my master's in architecture that the new 1st years had it easy because the programs had gotten stronger. I remember using Lumion when it first came out and how trash it was; now it's completely changed. That said, I can't complain, I can only keep up and not be left behind. We have to adapt are there are those that are starting to figure out where AI cannot compete and are driving more in the conceptual realm of design where AI is less refined and harder to control. One way I've seen this is designers modeling architecture in a 3D software and then putting an image into Midjourney to do the render. I guess the other thing here is that very few firms actually do creative work, I don't think creativity is jeopardized in any way because consumerism already dictates such lackluster design. Go outside and count the amount of creative architecture that you see. From my window all I see is basic commercial buildings. Some of you may be lucky to live in an architecturally rich area, but most don't. All in all, just because more people can create design does not mean we are out of a job. It just means that there are more designers out there (yes I use the word design because it's a word that cannot be hoarded by few since it it is so broad), but I can assure you, there will still be a big difference between someone who can use an AI program, and someone who has been trained to design through school an experience and can the use AI as a tool rather than a dictator. This will show in the quality of the work. Creativity is never a problem of technology but rather our own inclination to what is cheap, easy, and fast, this has always been the case.
i would like to customize a custom architecture rendering. the image should not change only the mood and quality. the architecture or image scenery must remain exactly the same. is this possible?
sadly we are far from not grinding through drawing, modeling, rendering, and such. Hope this ages like milk. But we will get there simply because it's vital.
What is the prompts I need to use in midjourney to recreate an old black and white picture of a building with low resolution in a realistic color picture with hi res? I mean to have the exact picture fixed. And once is in the system, what about to get this building and put another point of view from another part of the street? Can you do that? How? Thank you very much!
I do find it hard to control midjourney to just edit one photo which from a visualisation perspective isn't too great. If it's to overtake the traditional standard of still rendering whereby an artist deals with specific details from an architect and change finite elements within an image it just doesn't seem capable, well not that I have seen yet. It's great for ideas I will give it that but for being able to edit an image to match a clients (architect / developer) expectations, it doesn't cut it! I am obsessed with midjourney though its crazy what it comes up with!
I'm more interested in how AI can generate variants of our own renders, for example I generate of photo from a traditional software then I ask midjurny to create an alternative pic with other materials Etc.., it would be great.
Can i use a basic revit/archicad 3D model to generate photorealstic render ? I usualy do it on 3DS or blender but it takes a lot of time and i dont have that time for small project like houses or such ...
I'm just embracing MJ as a creative tool. I'm no architect and I shoot houses for the living. And this helps me to dream up the kind of design that I loved
Here is the prompt for ChatGPT
Please create a table that breaks down an interior architecture photograph composition into the following key elements, where each of these key elements is a column: Composition, Camera Angle, Style, Room Type, Focal Point, Textures, Detail, Color Palette, Brand, Lighting, Location, Time of Day, Mood, Architecture
Please write each row as a comma-seperated sentence. Append each sentence with --ar 16:9
fill the table with 10 rows of data
Feel the same
you know you guys are teaching AI to take your jobs right?
I like how the videos insinuate that architecture and interiors are not based on plans. As an Archviz designer, I can tell you that precision is crucial for creating these visuals, and you must follow the plans of the architects. Most of my clients request private competition images, so sharing confidential plans with an AI isn't possible and would be highly unprofessional. Adding an organic pillar that doesn't serve the structure of the building is not architecture.
Also, the visuals made on Midjourney have all the same kind of style, not any soul. The goal of an image during an architecture competition is to stand-out and to explain perfectly the concept. The realism is not always the final goal. Please stop saying that this is art. A designer, a painter or an architect fully controlled everything, on Midjourney you have zero controlled and everyone
There is no such thing as art or architecture that is 100% original. We've all seen countless examples that we copy from consciously or automatically.
Mark my words. We will regret all of this.
To me, there are many issues with this AI (Machine Learning), but most of them are going to the people who develop and the people who miss use it. As mentioned in another comment, comparing this to websites such as Pinterest, which makes everybody a designer, Boy I can tell you how many contractors that hire me don't even use an Architect, because, 'They can design'. As an Arch Viz artist, I've seen our industry hit many times by new technologies that are cool and all but the people misused always for a quick profit. Today everyone is a rendering person. most of them are really bad, but since the invention of Computer generated images, all these images lost their value instantly. If you are an Architect and want to copy someone else design, I mean get inspiration from someone else, yes, this tool is great. it can fill your brain with 1000 copies of someone else work. Then why do you need to be creative?, and push your boundaries when the software can do it for you. I don't know. Yea, I am not excited in the right way for this. for sure, I will learn it and use it, But paying money to a company that has sweatshops in some poor countries using very low pay workers for data entry and entry and content review to make better software that will take all weight to something that was hand made, feels weird to me, I guess I could say the same of the Car, the telephone, the computer and so on. yea, we pay a price for advancing technology, for sure. You know I started following your channel just for the craft you showcase, the way you combine software and techniques to create something different and unique. How you had a 'vision or inspiration' in your brain and try to express it in different media (Which is very different to what mid-journey or any AI does) . Your work and the way to create is inspiring, and that earns mines and many other people's respect. This AI future seems plain and none inspiring for sure, to me at least.
You made a valid point with your words.(AI) I dislike it and am terrified of it since I am an architect. Where do the ideas come from? They want to slack off the brain. The architect's design concept now has that as its new objective.
Yes I agree. The point of an architect is to have a human being interpret your needs and actually (in theory) create something new and innovative. With this technology, a developer can create floor plans in 5 minutes, make super attractive renders, and build a building that makes them a ton of money and does nothing in terms of architecture. These tools seem to allow non-designers to feel like architects because they create the same looking final product as an architect would create, but it almost seems soul-less...which would make sense considering it is AI. Also just the concept of inputting a prompt where you have to specify what kind if already existing style you want it in inherently removes the ability to innovate and find your own voice as a designer. The scary part is when developers consider that what AI can create is good enough for them to build a building and make a quick buck. Will save them lots of money on hiring an architect for the design, and they'll have a building that looks decent. 🤷🏽♂️
Great video as always, this channel needs more recognition, video shows the effort and interest that you are putting in. As for the topic of it, to be honest as a very young architect just starting after a degree that taught us other stuff, not even preparing us with the reality that was known before and now that we are dealing with even newer things it is really frightening and kinda existential to be honest xd. It really needs some things to be organized and established for me at least to cope with it. Like Heidegger said about humans categorizing the world so that they can understand it and feel safe to live/dwell on it, its kinda the same now for me and i am in the process of finding understanding into the AI thing that is being implemented to our lives not only to architecture as a job. I really like how confident and positive you are about this and the courage you have to understand it and work with it as it is even now that its kinda chaotic about the rules and stuff.
Thanks for sharing Steve!
No to AI
As 20 year experienced 3d artist I just lost my livelihood.
Excellent video, as a Landscape Architect at the end of my career, I see this as a tool that is now out of the box and its knowledge of its existence cannot be denied. In our industry, I can see packages of work of each phase no longer taking 2 weeks for a lead and two other designers/CAD operatives, but two days for one designer. We will become an industry of interpretation of what works for the needs of people within space/place and environmental considerations. A lot more meetings concerning design, and prompt engineering, less on functional (ie Ai doing all the CAD structural drawings) rules bound construction drawings.
To me, the problem with AI in Archviz is the consistency between images, its hard to achieve and complicated to integrate in a workflow with clients feedbacks and changes and all.
It's more of a cool way to make a moodboard than a real production HD render. But curious to see where this is going in the next few months.
I agree! that is what happens with the current state of AI, but I think this will be a thing of the past in a few months. Also, each image generated by midjourney has a specific seed and ID, and if you repeat that ID when changing words, you will get the same (or almost the same) project/image
@@ShowItBetter I'm waiting for the moment when AI will be integrated in render engines or 3D software with recognition of faces/textures and details. That will be the game changer in our field
@@Zarakla this will surely happen, but eventually AI will reach a point where it doesn't need us anymore. It will have the entire detailed knowledge of any creative process.
@@Hadi2360 Yes and No, Technical detail and rules yes, not the artistic part and the ability to choose between different options. Our jobs will be to guide IA toward the result we want, not the opposite.
Midjourney for discovery, stable diffusion to further refine and get the exact look you want
I just don't like that it does the only fun part for you. I'd prefer to make my own concepts and the AI do the drawings. It would be fun if I could just input my sketches and it would generate a Revit model... So far it's doing the opposite. I also don't want clients coming in with whatever they generated and asking me to turn it into reality. I just feel that communication will become more frustrating.
Technical Drawings... AI can not do technical drawings..
Yet...
You don’t understand the technology if you say this 🙃
@@LorenzoLamarche Can it or Can't it?
@@maquindesign9158 easily, you just have to train for it-> let’s do a startup
@@LorenzoLamarche Let's create an AI that takes sketches and turns them into working drawings?
“Ethically”? None of this exists without ripping off other artists and photographers. There is no ethical way of doing this lazy bs. Creative power does not belong in the hands of the undedicated.
Copyright be damned, Oscar Niemeyer mentioned in this video, Zaha Hadid in several other Video prompts. These people gave their life and personal time to hone their skills.
Thanks for this video.... have to admit all this sh*t is really unsettling for me! If Pinterest made every client a 'designer', I can only imagine what this will do once it improves / becomes more mainstream.
that chat gpt workflow video would be great!!!
I didn’t see this as being presented as reducing architecture to just aesthetics, but as a tool to speed up rendering
pretty cool man. As an Architect (studied from 1998-2003 in Mexico), this is pretty interesting to blend the traditional paper-pencil tools with the contemporary AI and get the best of both worlds :)
solo dire que reemplazar tus metodos creativos con una ia solo hara que creatividad muera, con el tiempo no seras capas de siquiera imaginar un espacio una fachada sin usar las IA...lo digo xq se lo complejo que es ser un arq diseñador esto es por que hay muy pocos que se dedican a esto, gran herramienta para experimentar variaciones de tu propio trabajo , por otro lado me parece un plagio aberrante a los trabajos hechos por otros artistas cuando se usa de referencia, hay que encontrar la manera de crecer conjunto con las IA pero mucho cuidado pues esto matara tu creatividad
Curious to learn how we can load specific SketchUp/Revit models and real-world site photography into these programs to create ACCURATE on-site renderings...
Please be VERY cautious w/Midjourney, everyone.
The issues w/copyright also apply to anything you create. Every image you create is “feeding” the dataset from which it “learns”. So portions of your render can easily appear in a complete stranger’s render.
There is no privacy or ownership! They own all of your images and the free version immediately makes your image a searchable part of its dataset.
Imagine making a site plan render for a client with high security needs and not only is it instantly available for viewing by anyone/everyone who wants to view it, parts of this plan can appear in a stranger’s plan. It’s very dangerous.
The capabilities of Midjourney are impressive but, personally, the privacy, security and ownership issues will keep me far away until they can be resolved.
good. im all for collective knowledge. imagine if scientists werent allowed to use other scientific finds because they are copyrighted, or imagine musicians not being able to sample other songs. i think copyright is the result of our current economic system and it doesn’t necessarily help us progress and create new and exciting stuff. I think all art (including architecture) is inspired from something that already exists, this is not a new concept
@@d6o9 I think you’re misunderstanding the thrust of my concern. It’s not simply about copyright. If I use a clients site plan to create a rendering, the private information of a person’s floor plan to their home, is now in the public sphere. That’s not a copyright issue, that’s a very real safety and privacy concern.
I’d also have to disagree about copyright being only for the purposes of lining wallets. An artist, illustrator, photographer, etc. makes their living from the sale of their images. Without copyright, anyone and everyone can use them free of charge, destroying the livelihoods of all of these artists. Artists have to eat, too. Copyright is one of the only things protecting their means of income. You expect artists to create art without any compensation?
Great video! I really like your content, nice inspiration to face final assignments ;) Me encantaría ver como utilizas GPT4!
Great content! I would really love to see how you integrate Chat GPT into your architecture workflow.
meeeee too!!!
resuming achitecture to pure asthetics... this is not even close to be architecture. AI as a lot of potencial in architecture field, but this is not the way, this is simply nice images, nothing more.
Totally true.
I agree. Still an interesting tool.
It will be soon … don’t worry about that …
It will come sooner than you think. Imagine 2 years ago nobody would’ve thought this is possible coming at this speed
Ignore it now and you’ll lose later unfortunately
Perfect tool for creating mood boards and very initial concepts. I don't think the construction industry will ever trust a floor plan or construction drawing made by AI.
Ultimately, It's a tool to streamline our workflow.
I agree! With the state of Midjorney today. But if this has happened in a few months, I can't imagine what will happen in a few years. There are already 3d software like Spline where you type in what you want and AI will generate it. So, eventually it's going to get better to the point where we won't even notice. AI in 3d software, AI in rendering software, AI in Post production software....
@@ShowItBetter I do believe AI will indeed be eventually be used to create building floor plans. Once given the set parameters and rules of building codes, build area, floor limitations, required installations, it would make complete sense for AI in the near future to generate entire buildings floor plans (even at construction resolution), sections and elevations, within the set parameters relevant to your project and state, in seconds to minutes. It wouldn't be an image generator necessarily, but would be capable of generating every single building element in a way that would be ready to build, relevant to your local building codes. This would likely be a hybrid of fuzzy-logic, with flexible and inflexible parameters, combined with genuine AI.
@@jacobcurran7529 regarding the floor plans, i think us architects already possess powerful tools like grasshopper where we input our parameters and get proper generative plans , ( finch3d ). Which is why I think the industry will lean heavily towards parametric generative architecture rather than luck based AI.
I may be horribly wrong, truly exciting times but I think we still have a few years to save our profession.
@@dududadadede96 Yes, I do agree with you. It is also fairly unlikely that a client is going to want to be radically surprised by a randomly generated floor plan. Perhaps we'll end up with a few cool tools that incorporate a touch of AI, to make our work-flow a tad more speedy.
@@jacobcurran7529 what do you mean by surprised? as far as i see a layout programs cannot develop in more than 5-6 design proposals and more often there is 1-2 that are superior by their efficiency. i dont see how it can surprise a client more than an ordinary plan.
the only problem is than just 1 image, you cant make 5 identical images of the same building, AI tools just are in concept stage at the moment. Definitely not to make final production renders.
If Ai achieves a level of complexity where it could analyze and consider each and every accumulated data from zoning, site analysis, land use and topography, human anthropometrics, structural design, availability of specifications and materials, available tech, psychology, project management and master planning, etc, etc... while customizing to the client's requirements and taste then yeah maybe in the more distant future, but this is by no means near the surface of what architects deal with.. I'm also an architect btw so I didn't just google these things up, but I can see how this tech can absolutely assist in the design process..
This is great! Thank you for the tutorial.
How do you protect your data? Their data collection and control seems pretty aggressive.
You can't. Because eveything's stolen, they just capitalise the fact that law legislation can't keep up with technological progress
Each day i fell more and more useless ... (yes i am full time archviz artist ..)
A lot of junior level architecture work is about toilet partitions and hardware schedules. At the moment this is just a wet dream, great for ideas and conversations, but don't /imagine that it will coordinate structure, services and energy use with building regulations and local materials.
Ai is a bullshit generator
IMPORTANT QUESTION: Is it possible transform a mediocre render into a realistic one?
Any second now, we will see AI, replacing the traditional draughtsman.
I think probably sooner than two years time, AutoCAD and the rest will have implemented AI.
What will be interesting as when the owner/customer is an AI
Everybody is saying right now "it won't replace rendering softwares", and that is "just a tool for the creative process", but with this tools constantly advancing won't you think it'll get there eventually? I mean with things like stable diffusion + control net we are already getting some control, what if they come up with intelligent masks for identifying elements to easily replace walls, floors, environments, etc mantaining general and consistent lightning of the scene, When that happens the next step will be for 3d or architecture softwares to implement this as a part of their own set of tools and everybody could be a proffesional archviz artist without having to have any understanding of photography whatsoever because AI will give you cinematic results within an instant. I think its kind naive to think this only will be "a tool" for the creative process
In the future an AI "app" can take the place of an entire architecture/engineering firm.😊
I love architecture, do different design work, and mid journey has been amazing since I don't have to spend the learning curve on the software to create something pretty close to what I want. Just wish it understood more, but I'm sure I'll wish the opposite soon lol
I have a specific query about using AI tools for interior design. If I have a 2D plan of a working office space, is it possible to use AI tools to create a furnishing design for that space? Also, do these tools help transform inspiration images created by midjouney into workshop drawings and scales?
Your videos never disappoint! I’ve been exploring Stylar’s AI and it’s impressive. Would love to see your thoughts on it.
Kind of the arrival of the linguistic architecture, maybe what Eisenman and Derrida conceived
still your renderings are the best than the AI ones.
At the moment rendering in MJ is still limited. If I want two windows on the left side of the room and the kitchen furniture on the right, it is almost impossible to achieve that. It lacks precision.
What recourse do we have against the people creating software to take our jobs away? Nothing. Just shut up, and subscribe so they can keep on improving their garbage and devaluing creative industries
Arch visuals are made for specific architectural projects with specifics design parameters and technical data (for specific location and plot/environment for example). Very impressive, but at this point that is useless. Only for entertainment.
i just signed up to Midjourney through Discord but it seems to be only a paid service. Is there a way to fiddle with it without forking out?
Just because you give credit to someone doesn't mean you have the right to use their images. That's like stealing from a shop and then just saying it's fine because you say "Oh yeah I stole it from Wallgreens".
Seems like AI is for people who aren't really creative or original but use other people's work or talent as their own?
Using your own images to create a new one with the blend function is a very promising tool. It avoids copyright issues and still uses this incredible technology to forge a new image from existing material. I would say it's the most interesting tool of AI generative algorithms for true creatives.
I agree! I think the most interesting thing is using your own work to create new images. Its interesting to see how an AI trained model sees your work and how you can describe it as well. Hence the "describe" feature
@@ShowItBetter Definitely. Can't wait to see how it progresses! Especially in adding more controls, like editing only some parts of the image, or setting image weight when blending two.
Amazing video Steven! Experiencing with Midjourney for my designs gave me great concept ideas, however can I suggest maybe you can release a video about inspiring a design and creating 3D model like Tim Fu from Zaha Hadid Architects? Thank you!
The tool is cool and the result is amazing...but one thing that bothers me after using is it"s really boring to use and I feel like I didnt even do a single thing other than the initial idea. Is this really the direction of the art of picture making? Kinda sad.
awesome, yes I would love a video on how to use Chat GBT for architectural work.
its not free anymore :(
it's not! but perhaps in a few months when we can integrate this much more into our workflow, a $10 subscription is not going to seem as much in comparison to current rendering software where the cheapest is $250
Could you pls show it how to use ai for interior design from scratch
Super excited about what's to come! 🎉 feel like it will be a tool...just like photoshop didn't put photographers out of business but gave them a tool to make their photos even better
Photoshop does not generate images, as of now, only edits them so could never put photographers out of business. Ai Generates images, mostly by stealing original artists work and re mashing them, & will put photographers in certain niches out of work.
@@BubbleGendut exactly!!!
I wa practicing on archviz lol no need to work on that anymore
what we do when ai make all the process for us?
hello thanky you fpr may ideas guy:)
Chatgpt video please! we appreciate you 💙
chat gpt workflow video please!
that chat gpt workflow video would be great
chat gpt workflow video please!
Interesting and informative video, but your example of using chatGPT was really unclear, feels like there was a missing step that wasn't described.
Sorry about that
Im still at /imagine ... draw a guy.
Great and helpful video! Would be even better if you slowed down, don’t rush…it’s a lot of info. I’d suggest not talking so fast and taking more time on examples. Otherwise brilliant
Thanks for the tip!
Let’s say it’s an existing building, urban environment only want to do a facade design, without changing the mass. Can you lower the intensity? Thanks
with the new selective correction from Midjourney you can!
42 minutes later and I still can not figure out how to get the first step down -- drag a photo into the chat. Literally doesn't work for me. Someone have a secret? I am amazed by how unintuitive this is from the start.
Not mentioned was you need to Direct Message the Mid Journey Bot, which in itself took a few minutes to figure out and only because I was scanning his screen.
Excited, though I'm more close to your "old professor"... Cornell B.Arch '86
no offense to the OGs!
I do find your video very interesting but you are just talking too fast and not explaining clear enough step by step to achieve the resulted images.. Very hard to follow what you are talking about 😞
sorry for that! I made sure to include and zoom in to the basic prompts so you can pause the video and work on your own :)
Wow! Very interesting! Thank you ( Could you say me your brand glasses? ;)
thanks! honestly it's a local glasses shop, nothing special :)
thx for the video, its very usefull, to be honest) just starting explore the ai-visualisation, and it looks preety usable for architecture even now on start)
Glad it helped!
When I was at design school we used Rotring ink pens on tracing paper which took forever.
You worked on a drawing board and created perspectives using vanishing points lol.
While I'm glad I learnt those techniques, I love and embrace all the new technologies.
The time it saves and the insane quality of the output and the fact that you can try so many different iterations of an idea is game changing.
I am super excited to get onboard this new AI evolution in the design industry.
I'm 60 years old but I never want to stagnate or fall behind or become fixed in my ways.
Bring it on I say lol, evolve or die.
Ah, yes. the two point perspective. That took me back. Complete with the makeshift architecture table, Im doing it with two thick treads, two wheel for rollers, one long ruler, and a triangular ruler. Those cool architect tables with fancy light is expensive.
Then the multiple style of shading for the facades. small dotting that takes up the whole weeks, or thin lines that obscure other detailing. Fun stuff.
My architecture teacher also forbade me to use CAD programs. All need to be done by pencils, then finish them up with multiple thickness of those Rotrings.
A wall needs to be shortens by a couple inches? Redraw those multiple A2 pages of drawings.
Today, my staff just need to press one button to render the stuff, and using library of template cads for new designs. The hardwork of two months with old style are getting done with couple of works today techs.
Even down to my colleagues in civil engineering and project managements. They cant work without the help of stuff like Etab calculation or BIM. Its simply shortens the amount of work so we can efficiently handle many other stuff.
I cant imagine what the future hold with cloud computing, AI concepting, VR realism, and many other stuff.
please create the prompt for chatgpt
The public should remember that real architects are not just renderers...They create code-compliant sets of drawings from which a building for a client can be built. These drawings must adhere to building codes and zoning regulations often unique to the town or county a project is in. Omitting even a small dimension from a handrail or window can result in a costly change ordered over which an architect can get sued. Material science and the detailing of complex material systems that will last, not leak, survive the test of time, and not fail for a variety of reasons is an absolutely vital skill that an architect must bring to the table. Not only that, but the climate in which an architect is building will inform numerous iterations of how details are drawn and buildings are designed on technical and structural levels. Anyone who thinks this is outside of their purview as an architect is not an architect, but rather merely a designer or artist. That is fine, but let's not confuse someone who only knows how to conceptualize and render buildings with someone who is an architect that can actually deliver a built work to a client. Architecture is not a rendering of a curvy glass building in a field. If AI can help us speed up the conceptual and visual aspects of the design and drawing process then great. I used to absolutely hate the amount of time that had to get dedicated to producing professional grade renderings for commercial clients. If you didnt have time and sub-contracted it out it was very expensive and ate up your design fee. I know times have changed but just imagine that an older person like me is actually JEALOUS of AI, not scared or grumpy about it. But I'm not at all worried about AI taking our jobs. I think it will make them much easier and allow us to put energy into the aspects of project delivery that we want to instead of some of the tedious things that we all used to work 80hrs a week to try and finish.
What's your Lenovo Legion model?
legion 7!
Great video! Could you please share some of the prompts of the images you generated? It would be a great help with understanding how Midjourney works and how to get better precision of the results.
sure! I'll set up a PDF with the prompts
@@ShowItBetter love you
I understood that this is a visualization tool. AI is not designing, right?
Why so many people angry?
haha Idk!
As amazing as all of this AI technology is. What this is doing for design and architecture, interior design, fashion, design, art, etc. is that it is simply "generating" something it isn't actually creating something. Meaning this isnt original. It's just recreating(generating) something that's already been done..
Very nice results!
Have you tried purpose build tools like VISOID which allows you to render your projects?
How much do you pay for this? 😮
I've been on the site and I didn't succeed in reaching the page you demonstrated on your video...any idea? how to get into it?
midjourney works through discord :)
So while midjurney creates increadible nice images, i would like to have options like Controlnet for midjurney.
another Problem is, that midjurney cant be used from big architectural companys, because the content is placed somewhere, somehow in the internet, visible to everyone .. everywhere..
Thats why i rather would focus on stable diffusion, which seems to get comparabel results using optimised prompts, but can be installed localy, can be trained on your specialised style, and moreover now can use Controlnet to bring your sketch to live in an unbeleavable good way
Nice vid ! Can you share with the name of AI SketchUp plugin ?
Thanks for the video. Where can I find that Blue Cabin with a small porch that you show a couple of times in this video? Is it your work? Thanks.
why did i learn Graphic Design and 3d Modeling - this takes away the fun out of my job...
For collage, conceptual design, inspiration is useful. Some preliminar ideas. Thats it, for now, the extension of the tool.
Architects have been copying the each other ever since.
since when specifically?
In the creative field our jobs are never secure, for sure the pace is quickening every year. I remember complaining when I was doing my master's in architecture that the new 1st years had it easy because the programs had gotten stronger. I remember using Lumion when it first came out and how trash it was; now it's completely changed. That said, I can't complain, I can only keep up and not be left behind. We have to adapt are there are those that are starting to figure out where AI cannot compete and are driving more in the conceptual realm of design where AI is less refined and harder to control. One way I've seen this is designers modeling architecture in a 3D software and then putting an image into Midjourney to do the render. I guess the other thing here is that very few firms actually do creative work, I don't think creativity is jeopardized in any way because consumerism already dictates such lackluster design. Go outside and count the amount of creative architecture that you see. From my window all I see is basic commercial buildings. Some of you may be lucky to live in an architecturally rich area, but most don't. All in all, just because more people can create design does not mean we are out of a job. It just means that there are more designers out there (yes I use the word design because it's a word that cannot be hoarded by few since it it is so broad), but I can assure you, there will still be a big difference between someone who can use an AI program, and someone who has been trained to design through school an experience and can the use AI as a tool rather than a dictator. This will show in the quality of the work. Creativity is never a problem of technology but rather our own inclination to what is cheap, easy, and fast, this has always been the case.
i would like to customize a custom architecture rendering. the image should not change only the mood and quality. the architecture or image scenery must remain exactly the same. is this possible?
Video tutorial how to render a building from sketchup or 3d max as you would with Corona.
sadly we are far from not grinding through drawing, modeling, rendering, and such. Hope this ages like milk. But we will get there simply because it's vital.
What is the prompts I need to use in midjourney to recreate an old black and white picture of a building with low resolution in a realistic color picture with hi res? I mean to have the exact picture fixed. And once is in the system, what about to get this building and put another point of view from another part of the street? Can you do that? How? Thank you very much!
can midjourney make a site development plan of your lot?
not at the moment
I do find it hard to control midjourney to just edit one photo which from a visualisation perspective isn't too great.
If it's to overtake the traditional standard of still rendering whereby an artist deals with specific details from an architect and change finite elements within an image it just doesn't seem capable, well not that I have seen yet.
It's great for ideas I will give it that but for being able to edit an image to match a clients (architect / developer) expectations, it doesn't cut it!
I am obsessed with midjourney though its crazy what it comes up with!
Looking foward to buy a new course regarding this software. 🤓
Great information and production value, are you using AI video and VFX tools?
I'm more interested in how AI can generate variants of our own renders, for example I generate of photo from a traditional software then I ask midjurny to create an alternative pic with other materials Etc.., it would be great.
Can i use a basic revit/archicad 3D model to generate photorealstic render ? I usualy do it on 3DS or blender but it takes a lot of time and i dont have that time for small project like houses or such ...
I'm just embracing MJ as a creative tool. I'm no architect and I shoot houses for the living. And this helps me to dream up the kind of design that I loved
THere is already and AI render taht is free plugin that came out for rhino grasshopper.
El titulo esta en español pero el video esta en ingles hahah XD btw i know english fortunately
can it already work like " add a metal staircase to this photo, here (some colored marking to specfy the placement)
AI becomes the architect with no experience necessary 🙄 it will clash with engineers.