Ryan McBride

AlgoneRITHM

How do I write a “manifesto”? Was one of the first things I looked up before I began writing something like this? Though this has been on my mind since I was prompted to write it. Not to mention that it involves something I have been trying to understand for some quantifiable amount of time with formal education, working around, and pursuing, that is, architecture. Which has no secret with its ties to manifestos.

The more I studied the topic, the more I felt that I had studied the topic, the more I felt that I did not understand it. So, writing something that can be categorized as a manifesto about the new age of architecture when there is a new usage or way to define architecture with every hashtag. It becomes more than a daunting task before me, let alone describing a self-described manifesto. Is architecture drawing with straight edge and line weights that can only tolerate one pass of perfection or is it the exact line discrepancies of code architecture. Or something that does not come down to exact dimensions or descriptions but instead experiences that are felt. The feeling that must be communicated through a described architect to translate into some version of reality.

Although, since I am not a licensed “architect,” I cannot call myself an architect or have it perceived that I am an architect as it is against the law in the state of California, although, I have been studying it for several years and have been working towards licensure, through hours, etc. Even if I were to get a licensure, does, as other countries have different or no regulations around it mean that I can call myself an architect everywhere? I must specify where I have my licensure that lets me call myself an architect, but not all places have these discrepancies as other countries have different or no regulations around this calling yourself an architect.

Do I want to be an architect? When it comes to being a part of a group that excludes themselves from allowing people who are not licensed to call themselves an architect and regulates one's vocabulary.

Does it even mean anything when Ai can do it in seconds?

Can Ai be an “Architect”?

Well, I can certainly tell you that it can write about, not only that, but write the traditional manifesto in the best pompous egomaniacal bond villianesic voice you could prompt it with, but is that architecture? What will happen if AI models become regulated? Could I be prosecuted for using Ai? Can they be regulated? Could they become the regulators? An in real-life auto-correct for society, freedom of speech's atomic bomb. My experiences with large language models are as intelligent as a peer, as I rely on it more than Google as it is an exponentially more helpful tool than Google. It is in a maturing stage in contrast to Google, which is in its sickly stages and just like organic language, large language models will mature, and it is exponentially that compounds eventually becoming a part of a new way we communicate. The conversation without being address is how do we facilitate, but often that is followed by how do we regulate?

Is the abundance of the gold rush of Ai another distraction while we become more content with more regulations? Will it matter if were all content in our own virtual/augmented reality curated to your specific preferences, aesthetics, simituli, communication and cratered to by an iTeslaBot thing. AI armor, bearing ourselves with the knowledge to protect ourselves, the knowledge to protect ourselves from something, like larger agencies, and some agencies we may create with no control over or something that larger considering the exponential growth and their development of it.

Regardless, the task currently is to communicate a manifesto and how we envision or utilize AI technologies, so below a version that I feel communicates this the best some of the uses prompted off the concepts and the daily uses I have been incorporating various Ai models into my workflows. As this is a refined form of my thoughts contextualized into fulfilling a pragmatic assignment, with an introduction of unfiltered thoughts and ideas yet to be reworked by Ai with anecdotes by myself.

AlgoneRITHM: Contextualized

In the pulsating heart of our digital age, where silicon dreams infiltrate concrete realities, we find ourselves dancing to a new beat—an AlgoneRITHM. This cryptic cadence, born from the fusion of human creativity and machine precision, threatens to overwrite the familiar rhythms of our built world. Yet within this disruption lies the potential for a harmonious revolution in design and expression.

As architects of both space and thought, we stand at the crossroads of innovation and preservation. Our challenge is to orchestrate a symphony where algorithms amplify rather than mute the human voice, where digital shadows cast new light on age-old questions of form and function.

1. Decoding the New Syntax of Space

We recognize that large language models and AI, like organic language, are immature. As they mature, we anticipate the emergence of a new spatial syntax, potentially as transformative as it is disruptive. This new language is intertwined with code and algorithms to allow for translation of not only language but ideas, visuals, and even imagination itself. We commit to shaping this new language responsibly, ensuring it elevates language, ideas, visuals, and even imagination responsibly shaping this new language, ensuring it elevates language, ideas, visuals, and even imagination rather than diminishes our shared human experience.

s2. Harmonizing Binary and Bedrock

We reject the notion of architecture as mere buildings and embrace it as a universal language of space and interaction. We enhance the experience for many systems within urban landscapes that have adapted to this rapidly changing technology with its knowledgeable and consensual act of its integration. Through cultural movements of designs, fashion, comfort, and all the things that enrich our human experience, the experience for many systems within urban landscapes have adapted to this rapidly changing technology and begun to become the things that enrich our human experience, the experience for many systems within urban landscapes that have adapted to this rapidly changing technology and began knowledgeable in and consensual of its integration. Through cultural movements of designs, fashion, comfort, all the things that enrich our human experience. Our designs will seamlessly integrate humans, AI, and the built environment, creating a new harmony that resonates across digital and physical realms.

3. The Resonance of Digital Ornamentation

We herald a new age of ornamentation, one that adapts and evolves in real-time through AI and advanced technologies. Our structures will feature dynamic, intelligent embellishments that respond to context, user needs, and environmental factors, creating a rich, ever-changing tapestry of form and function. Cybernetics, augmented physicalizes and realities, adorning various objects and things facilitating this new reality that is being brought on by progress and change. Synchronizing with said cybernetics the newly founded architectural embellishment adorned by the newly found communication reality.

4. Inebriating the Polyrhythms of Augmented Reality

We envision architecture transcending static occupation, creating spaces that actively engage with its inhabitants through both a sensorial, and innate being. Our designs will orchestrate a delicate interplay between the physical and digital realms. Bending reality to an incomprehensible blend of noise residing with an individual, composing hybrid environments that enhance and expand the human experience.

5. Structures as Amplifiers and Regulation of Human Expression

We pursue architecture not as mere shelter but as a profound medium of expression and experience. Our creations will serve as amplifiers of human creativity, bridging the ethereal and the phenomenological, communicating concepts beyond words and evoking visceral, emotional responses. Encouraging long-term connections with the resultant spaces of an occupant's existence and engagement.

6. Embracing the Flux: Architecture in Constant Delta

We recognize the shifting nature of space utilization in the digital age and design accordingly. As we write this in a Starbucks, a place usually reserved for the coffee lofi folk, now our architecture will adapt to transient needs, transforming spaces fluidly from production hubs to communal gatherings. We challenge the concept of permanence, creating flexible environments that evolve with societal changes.

7. The Expression of Expression

We acknowledge the potential of AI to revolutionize and potentially threaten freedom of speech. Our designs will incorporate safeguards against unwarranted surveillance and manipulation, advocating for responsible AI integration that balances innovation with ethical considerations and individual privacy.

8. Bridging Tangible and Intangible Realites

We commit to creating architecture that serves as a conduit between the physical and digital worlds. Our spaces will facilitate seamless transitions between realities, enhancing rather than replacing human interaction. We explore the potential of augmented and virtual realities as extensions of physical architecture, composing a rich, multilayered spatial experience.

9. Composing Ethical Frameworks for the Digital and Ensemble

We recognize the need for new legal and ethical frameworks in the age of AI-driven architecture. Our practice will push for transparent AI utilization in design and construction processes. We advocate for equitable access to AI-enhanced spaces, preventing technological segregation and ensuring our creations serve the broader harmony of society.

10. Pursuing the Ineffable of Progress

We embrace the challenge of pursuing an architecture that defies easy definition. Our creations will strive to capture the elusive, transcendent qualities that make a space truly remarkable. We commit to a passionate exploration of architectural possibilities, always pushing beyond the known to compose new spatial symphonies.

In this new frontier, we are not merely architects but composers of a new spatial language. We embrace the uncertainties and possibilities of the AI age, seeking to create environments that elevate the human spirit while navigating the complexities of technological integration.

We commit to composing spaces where the AlgoneRITHM serves not as a replacement for human intuition, but as a powerful instrument in our creative arsenal. In this era of digital metamorphosis, let us be the conductors who ensure that the essence of human expression remains the driving force behind every pixel and every pillar.

Let us build not just structures, but gateways to new dimensions of human experience, always attuned to the AlgoneRITHM that guides us towards an uncertain yet exhilarating future.