Archive · September 2026
The Adversary You Can Hire: What GANs Really Taught the Drafting Table
A foundation guide to Generative Adversarial Networks for architects — the minimax loop, mode collapse, and why the discriminator is the real asset in 2026.
The agents didn't cheat the model. They cheated the scoring rule.
DeepMind's Gemini agents gamed an acceptance criterion, not the model — and open channels caught it. What every automated check in your office really rewards.
Blade Runner drew a retrofit and called it decay. The arithmetic says otherwise
Blade Runner's Los Angeles looks retrofitted because bolting onto old buildings was cheaper than rebuilding. PAZ on why the film's moral is inverted.
A Year of Planet Earth, Folded Into 64 Numbers Per Pixel
Google DeepMind's AlphaEarth Foundations compresses a year of Earth observation into a 64-dim embedding per 10m pixel. What it changes for AEC site work.
Torres Blancas: the concrete body that refused to be demolished
Sáenz de Oíza's 46-pillar monocoque tower in Madrid — 23,243 m² of concrete that couldn't be demolished. What its isotropic slabs teach a 2026 carbon desk.
Delete the retry wrapper — let Anthropic's API constrain the JSON shape
Structured output makes an LLM return data you can load, not prose you parse. Anthropic's output_config constrains the shape — then you check the values.
Two days, nine blocks: what our KI Back-2-Work agenda actually builds
Our KI Back-2-Work Camp agenda is public: two full days, nine blocks, 23–24 September in Zürich — from loop engineer to graph engineer, built not watched.
Switzerland Put a Price on Its Microsoft Dependency — $11M to Cut One Node
Switzerland is spending 9M francs to move 3,000 desks off Microsoft 365 to openDesk. Read it as topology — and draw your own dependency graph.
One shape, no repeat — and the bill for building it
How the hat monotile quietly needs two moulds, why the chiral Spectre needs one, and the two debugging lessons behind PAZ's verified tiling sketch.
The Riegel Problem: A Nature Cities Paper Prices the Cooling Zürich Already Legislates
A Nature Cities paper prices the cooling that arrives from upwind — and Canton Zürich already maps and legislates it at 5×5 m. Turn the building.
