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Words, Spaces and Generative AI: Layers of language in contemporary architecture

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Language can be considered a design material in architecture, and in the context of text-to-X generative AI models becoming a common tool for architectural practice, looking more closely at language is more important now than in the past. After describing some of the important developments in linguistics starting from Wittgenstein, and including the work of Chomsky, Lakoff, conceptual and generative metaphors as proposed by Schön, this chapter connects them to contemporary architectural design and generative text-to-X tools. The chapter builds on the idea that three main forms of language inte

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