Echoes of Transformation: Does AI Mirror Past Architectural Transformations ?

Designing Futures: Exploring AI, Data, Architecture and beyond.

In our third episode, meet Lara Belkind, a passionate architectural historian and lecturer at Syracuse University. Follwoing a double Master’s degrees in Architecture and Urban Planning from Harvard University, Lara is currently pursuing her PhD at the same prestigious institution.

Her research delves into the fascinating intersection of new technology and urban space, specifically in New York and Greater Paris. She has also shared her expertise at esteemed institutions such as Columbia University, the Architectural Association, Yale, and Harvard. Beyond academia, Lara has actively contributed to urban regeneration strategies, collaborating with public agencies in New York and Washington, DC.

With Lara we discussed historic parallels within architecture and AI - questioning whether we can draw comparisons to technological advances that would have potentially created a paradigm shift in the past; similar to what we’re seeing and experiencing today.

Join us in as we unravel these intricate layers of history, art and architecture and how these shifts in the past impacts the work we do today.