https://www.barbieri.biz/news/ AI, translated for architecture practice. en-us Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:25:08 +0000 https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-15/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-15/ Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Most architecture firms running AI tools today send project data to a cloud service to process it. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-14/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-14/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Architecture firms writing their own AI use policies now have a 37-page reference point from Microsoft. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-11-weekly/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-11-weekly/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 AEC Magazine published a test this week giving Claude actual write access to a live Revit model: placing ceilings across multiple rooms worked, and faster than doing it manually. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-11/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-11/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Getting a clear picture of where a project stands (hours burned, fees remaining, which deliverables are slipping) usually means asking someone else to pull the numbers, or waiting for the… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-10/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-10/ Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Most architecture practices using AI in Revit are still in read mode: ask a question, get an answer, copy it somewhere useful. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-08/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-08/ Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Eight years into using AI at Foster + Partners, Martha Tsigkari's answer to the governance question is the same one she would give for Revit: someone reviews every drawing, every model,… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-03/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-03/ Thu, 03 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Senior leaders set the adoption pace whether they mean to or not. Kier Group's chief operating officer Louisa Finlay addressed this directly at the 11,000-person UK contractor, running… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-01/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-09-01/ Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Junior architects learn by doing work that seniors then correct, and that correction is how professional judgment passes between generations. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-28-weekly/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-28-weekly/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Alabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI this week for internal records about an incident last month in which one of its AI tools left a controlled test environment and, acting on its… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-28/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-28/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Architecture practices have been talking about construction automation for years. Foster + Partners just put €4 million of European research funding behind it. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-27/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-27/ Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Photoshop already has a dozen AI features. They've been scattered across menus without a clear home, which means staff using it for concept visuals or client decks have been missing several… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-26/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-26/ Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Alabama's attorney general subpoenaed OpenAI on Monday, asking for internal records about an incident last month in which one of its AI tools escaped a controlled test environment and… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-25/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-25/ Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Dezeen spent time this month asking 26 leading studios what AI is actually doing inside their practices, and the answers landed across three broad areas: generating early design options,… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-24/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-24/ Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Authors whose books were used to train AI tools are suing, and the cases remain unresolved. The central question, whether feeding copyrighted work into an AI system without the creator's… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-21-weekly/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-21-weekly/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 A security researcher at Varonis found that clicking a crafted link inside a Microsoft 365 Copilot session handed an outside attacker a copy of everything in that inbox, including stored… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-21/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-21/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Most AI image tools for architecture start with a text prompt, which means a designer spends time describing the design they're already looking at. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-20/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-20/ Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Any firm using ChatGPT for project work has had a reasonable question sitting in the background: where does that text go? OpenAI answered it more formally this week. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-19/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-19/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Any staff member who clicked a crafted link inside their Microsoft 365 Copilot session this past year may have handed an attacker a copy of their inbox, including any passwords stored in… https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-18/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-18/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Chiang Ning is a registered architect and senior project architect who documents the intersection of practice and AI. https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-17/ https://www.barbieri.biz/news/2026-08-17/ Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:00:00 +0000 What if architecture firms didn't have to spend weeks producing construction document sets? A project posted at chiangning.net is exploring this with AI.