“Resistant Data: Questioning Architectural Values in the Age of AI” 

“Resistant Data: Questioning Architectural Values in the Age of AI,” is the first essay in a series about AI in design for Harvard Design Magazine, written by Elizabeth Bowie Christoforetti, assistant professor in practice of architecture at the GSD and affiliated faculty member at the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities. In the essay, Christoforetti considers AI’s impact on design as well as design’s influence on how AI develops beyond the field, bringing into question the social, ethical, and environmental implications of integrating machine intelligence.

The essay features Christoforetti’s CGBC-supported research and installation, Continuously Becoming Home: Design at the Intersection of Climate Crisis and AI, which explores the entangled systems of human life, data, and the biological world at a moment when human–AI relations and the climate crisis are reshaping what it means to dwell. Presented at the European Cultural Centre’sTime Space Existence 2025 exhibition at Palazzo Mora, Venice, the installation is a collaboration between Christoforetti; Ali Malkawi, professor of architectural technology at the GSD and founding director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities; and the HouseZero research team.

Read the full essay here.