SEEK ve citymatrix projeleri üzerinden mimarlık ve yapay zeka çalışmaları üzerine bir tartışma

Architectural design process involves a set of complex problem-solving processes due to its interdisciplinary nature. This complex process requires an intense study by architects, collection of different data, and creation of design alternatives within the scope of concepts, and selection of most ideal design among such different alternatives. While artificial intelligence (AI), which has been studied for a long time and has become a focus of interest today, was used to make electronic data transfer and to make complex computations before, it can gather information regarding events/instances and make decisions about events/instances today. AI studies brought along machine learning as a result of development of artificial neural networks. Hence, AI can also learn the relations between events/instances. The ability of AI to analyze events/instances, make decisions, and learn the relations between them rapidly is thought to play an effective role in architectural processes. This thesis examines the effects of the use of AI studies, which stand out in many fields today, in solving the complex structure of the architectural design process and consideration of AI as a decision-making mechanism on "the role of architect in architectural design process and his/her effect on the design processes". For this purpose, firstly, the maps of the design process arisen especially with the influence of modernism and gained importance in the post-World War II period, were evaluated, and then the definition, historical development, and working mechanism of AI technology have been examined and the "CityMatrix" project, an up-to-date project created as a thesis study at MIT in 2017, and the "SEEK" project, one of AI's first exemplary works in the field of architecture created in 1970 by Nicholas Negroponte and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Architecture Machine Group (AMG) have been comparatively examined in terms of their AI technologies and their general structures. In the conclusion of this study, potential effects of the AI technologies that attained a place also in the architecture field, as in all fields, and the predictions on the change of architectural design process as a result of such effects have been addressed.