This work represents the final step of my five-year journey as a student. It marks a point on the path of becoming a master of architecture that I want to dedicate to express my gratitude for everybody who accompanied my journey. It started in 2020 in Innsbruck, two weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic, changing the world we live in forever. Now, coming to an end with still fast-changing certainties in Trondheim five years later. Continuously supporting me, I firstly would like to thank my family.
Accompanying this work in first position, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to Pasi Aalto, for supervising my work and being a great source of inspiration and support over the last four months. Special thanks to Jørgen Skatland for co-supervising and jumping in when needed. Introducing myself to the topic of AI in architecture during my bachelor’s thesis, I would like to thank Miro Roman from the University of Innsbruck for providing valuable input during this research. Much of this work is influenced by his approaches and outputs of the CAAD at ETH in Zürich, led by Ludger Hovestadt. In advance, I am grateful to all the scholars and colleagues who will correct my arguments and flag my simplifications and omissions. I am very thankful for the many colleagues and friends with whom I discussed the ideas of my thesis and who generously offered tips and advice. Here I would like to mention in particular Elisa Lapersonne, Henrik Lebender, Raphael Brekalo, Rune Veslegard, Hugo André Mowinckel Nielsen, Kristian Edwards, and Aksel Ludvigsen.
Last but not least, I am grateful to all my fellow students for three unique years at the LFU Innsbruck and two fantastic years at the NTNU Trondheim, with a short exchange at the TU Munich. I am thankful for numerous discussions, long nights at the studio, and beautiful moments, which created a truly unique and inspiring environment to study in. This work represents the beginning of a new journey.