Drawing with Ghost Hands: When GenAI Helps Architects — and When It Quietly Undermines Them
A sketch begins with a blank surface. That is the romantic version, anyway. In a real design studio, the blank surface is rarely blank. It is crowded with precedent images, studio habits, tutor expectations, client language, spatial constraints, and the designer’s private suspicion that the first idea will be embarrassingly ordinary. Now add DALL-E 3 to the desk. Suddenly the first idea does not have to be drawn. It can be summoned. ...