The importance of architectural visualization is widely known but cannot be overstated. Architects trade may be in buildings but rarely is a building built today before a rendering of that building is produced. Rendering or image making is used as a design tool to evaluate work, a marketing tool to sell designs and a communication tool to execute constructions of those designs.

Since the developments of computer-generated images, ‘renderings’ have appeared in many forms with styles of lighting, trends in entourage and techniques of post processing. Preceding but intertwined with the history of rendering is the history of photography as the preferred medium for capturing and documenting the built environment. The combination of photography, rendering and post processing techniques and advancements in software have brought photo-realistic renderings to a level sometimes indistinguishable from photographs themselves. Most recently developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence have allowed for the creation of deepfakes, a form of synthetic media that combines video and imaging of real individuals with artificially created content. While the motivations behind these artifacts vary from political strategy to social agendas, the underlying intent remains the same: to deceive.

This course will not be exploring machine learning but its fundamental aim shared by deepfakes: complete and total deception. How far can you push architectural rendering, in combination with photography and photo editing? How much can you leverage the power of commonly available software and downloadable images? Can you deceive your peers with your new found skills?


All Semesters

1019
Summer 2024
Visualization and Computation
Brennan Buck, Dorian Booth, Daniel Markiewicz, Julie Zink, Hyojin Kwon, Beom Jun Kim, Dov Feinmesser
1019
Summer 2023
Grid Space: Scripting and Algorithmic Design
Dorian Booth
1019
Summer 2023
Mapping Social and Environmental Space
Jill Kelly
1019
Summer 2023
Intro to Revit
Dov Feinmesser, Julie Zink
1019
Summer 2023
Memory Palace (Virtual Reality)
Beom Jun Kim
1019
Summer 2023
Deepfakes: Architecture of the Image
Daniel Markiewicz
1019
Summer 2022
Image as Instruments
Hyojin Kwon
1019
Summer 2022
Memory Palace (Virtual Reality)
Beom Jun Kim
1019
Summer 2022
Intro to Revit
Dov Feinmesser, Julie Zink
1019
Summer 2022
Grid Space: Scripting & Algorithmic Design
Dorian Booth