{"id":532,"date":"2018-11-03T08:15:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-03T08:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cast.b-ap.net\/dev5\/?p=532"},"modified":"2025-11-25T01:46:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T01:46:06","slug":"molly-wright-steenson-lectures-on-ai-and-stories-of-autonomous-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/2018\/11\/03\/molly-wright-steenson-lectures-on-ai-and-stories-of-autonomous-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Molly Wright Steenson lectures on &#8220;AI and Stories of Autonomous Landscapes&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"532\" class=\"elementor elementor-532\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-2715e2ef elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"2715e2ef\" data-element_type=\"section\" 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https:\/\/ubwp.buffalo.edu\/cast\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/113\/2018\/09\/83af66a9-9b49-4686-8f81-079e4fbf203b-768x799.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-459e143d\" data-id=\"459e143d\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-62c0a425 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"62c0a425\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Part myth, part imaginary, part reality, there are numerous visions of how AI is changing the landscape around us. Yet these ideas have a longer history\u2014one that directly implicates architects and architecture back to the 1960s. In this talk, Molly Wright Steenson traces the history of AI in architecture and looks ahead to its contemporary and future implications.<\/p><p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p><p>Molly Wright Steenson is an author, designer, and historian. She is the K&amp;L Gates Associate Professor of Ethics &amp; Computational Technologies at Carnegie Mellon University, Senior Associate Dean for Research in the College of Fine Arts, and an Associate Professor in the School of Design with a courtesy appointment in the School of Architecture. She is the author of &#8220;Architectural Intelligence: How Designers and Architects Created the Digital Landscape&#8221; (MIT Press, 2017), which traces the radical history of AI\u2019s impact on design and architecture, and the co-editor of the forthcoming book &#8220;Bauhaus Futures&#8221; (MIT Press, 2019) that explores the legacy of the Bauhaus at 100. Previously, she was an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, an adjunct faculty member at Art Center in Pasadena, CA, and an associate professor at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea in Italy. She holds a PhD in Architecture from Princeton University and a Master\u2019s in Environmental Design from the Yale School of Architecture. Prior to academia, Molly started working with the Web in 1994 and has worked at groundbreaking design studios, consultancies, and Fortune 500 companies in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, New York, Europe, and India.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-560bb45 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"560bb45\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-052a22b\" data-id=\"052a22b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element 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