in situ: Refik Anadol presents Living Architecture: Gehry, a groundbreaking audiovisual AI Data Sculpture that reimagines Frank Gehry’s architectural legacy through artificial intelligence (AI) and generative art. Developed by Refik Anadol Studio, the custom-built AI model Large Architecture Model (LAM) is based on advanced technology and has been trained for months on a vast archive of open-access imagery, sketches, and blueprints to transform Gehry’s architectural language into ever-changing landscapes of dynamic form, color, and movement. Augmenting this visual spectacle is an immersive soundscape composed by Kerim Karaoglu, blending AI-generated audio with material recordings captured within the Museum itself.
Team Credits:
Adam Samson, Alex Morozov, Alistair Ramage, Caio Villela, Christian Burke, Cosku Turhan, Seungmin Lee, Dasha Orlova, Dave Hunt, Delaney Kough, Dogukan Yesilcimen, Efe Mert Kaya, Efsun Erkilic, Hye Min Cho, Jennifer Plackemeier, Jules Hyun, Kelian Maissen, Kerim Karaoglu, Kyle McLean, Kyle Thomas Miller, Laura Cohen, Linda Berke, Maurizio Braggiotti, Michael Alchermes, Michael Hsiu, Mert Cobanov, Michael Hsiu, Nidhi Parsana. Nikolai Garcia, Pelin Kivrak, Simon Burke, Vinicius Harres, Will Young, Xi Wang, Yetong Xin, Yufan Xie
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Thanks to
Collaborators: Frank Gehry
Curator Lekha Hileman Waitoller
Exhibition Partner 1OF1
Technology Partner Euskaltel
With the collaboration of Google Cloud
For this exhibition, Anadol took on the challenge of teaching AI to “learn” the architectural style of Frank Gehry, his favorite architect. This project highlighted Gehry’s unique design principles, presenting a radical and futuristic visualization of his architectural vision while paying homage to one of his masterpieces: the spectacular Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. The immersive experience engaged visitors with AI-generated projections that displayed the dream-like quality of Gehry’s iconic structures.
The dataset includes 32,147,692 photographs of architecture from Frank Gehry and others curated from publicly available image archives.
Living Architecture: Gehry unfolds across six interconnected chapters, each representing a distinct stage in the evolution of data into architectural imagination:
- Chapter I — Data Universe: A vast constellation of materials and data—archival photographs, plans, and structural documents—are compiled into a memory space.
- Chapter II — Data Plotting: As the data is processed, complex patterns emerge through the arrangement of form, texture, and spatial composition.
- Chapter III — Data Tunnel: The data transitions into immersive visual environments in the latent space, inviting viewers to engage with the evolving process of human-machine collaboration.
- Chapter IV — Large Architecture Model: By transforming Gehry’s forms, the AI generates new architectural possibilities that push the boundaries of imagination and design.
- Chapter V — Machine Hallucination: A moment of abstraction, where AI-generated structures break free from conventional spatial constraints, offering hallucinatory, dreamlike visions.
- Chapter VI — Dreams: A return to the world of architecture, now envisioned through the limitless imagination of AI—where architecture transforms in real time, continuously generating new forms that emerge and evolve in the moment.
