About this Event
Join us for a panel conversation to celebrate the new book from MAP (Metropolitan Architectural Practice), Architecture x Architecture: A Dialectic, a critical dialectic on generative AI and architectural design within an interdisciplinary practice. The conversation will feature Katherine Lambert, Christiane Robbins, and Annabel Keenan, followed by a signing.
PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic redefines the boundaries of architectural thought, introducing a bold reimagining of architecture's visual and conceptual lexicon through the transformative lenses of machine vision and generative AI.
These projects from 2022-2024 attest to a formative period in the evolution of architectural visualization and practice by MAP (Metropolitan Architectural Practice).
They explore concepts of “neo-ecologies”—an intricate, intersectional ecosystem where architecture exists as an evolving interface within a constantly shifting digital, spatial, and cultural matrix. Here, architecture is not solely built form but a dynamic entity, deeply enmeshed in a network of digital and cultural exchanges that expand the field's horizon of possibilities. With meticulously crafted visual analyses, Architecture X Architecture maps the contours of digital influence, illuminating Generative AI's origins, its rapid escalation, and its complex entwinement within architectural practices.
Addressed to architects, cultural theorists, digital innovators, and intellectually curious readers, this monograph provides a nuanced and penetrating exploration of AI's dual role—not as a sustaining force, but as a catalyst that redefines contemporary architectural paradigms. In doing so, it offers a transformative vision of architecture at the convergence of AI-driven imaging and experimental design methodologies, forging a neo-ecological framework that emphasizes perpetual growth, adaptation, and post-disciplinary fluidity.
Katherine Lambert, AIA, is an architect and professor whose work integrates material precision, ecological intelligence, and design research across residential, commercial, adaptive reuse + cultural projects. She is co-founder of MAP (Metropolitan Architectural Practice) and MAP Studio, where she bridges built practice with exploratory methodologies in synthetic vision, environmental data, and spatial media. Lambert has played a significant academic leadership role at CCA, contributing to innovation in inclusive design and forward-looking architectural pedagogies. Her work has been published internationally and is held in major cultural collections, including the Smithsonian Institution, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design. She is a key author of Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic (2025).
Christiane Robbins is a director, media artist, and scholar whose work explores how emerging technologies—AI, synthetic vision, and algorithmic imaging—reshape contemporary spatial and visual culture. As co-founder and research director of MAP Studio, she leads cross-disciplinary investigations into architecture as a media ecology, integrating design research, expository visualization, and experimental media. Robbins’ work has been exhibited internationally at MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Venice Biennale, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Gwangju Biennale, and her films and media artworks exhibited globally are held in major museum collections including MoMA, the Getty Museum, SFMOMA, and the Stedelijk Museum. She is a principal contributor to Architecture X Architecture: A Dialectic (2025), which examines the future of the architectural imaginary in the age of synthetic vision.
Annabel Keenan is a New York-based writer and editor specializing in contemporary art and sustainability. She contributes to the New York Times, Financial Times, the Art Newspaper, and frieze among others and is the author of Climate Action in the Art World: Towards a Greener Future (Lund Humphries, 2025). For over ten years, she's covered contemporary art, design, architecture, and museum systems. She holds a BA in Art History and Italian from Emory University and an MA in Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture from Bard College’s Bard Graduate Center with a qualifying thesis on architect-designed decorative arts.
Photo Credit: Sarah Wagner Miller
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Rizzoli Bookstore, 1133 Broadway, New York, United States
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