PAZ Kaffi is the AEC newsroom of PAZ Academy Zürich — daily dispatches on architecture, computational design, BIM and AI.
An open-source cyberpunk game ships a fully typed TypeScript API, docs generated from its .d.ts files. Setup, first scripts, and the Zürich office move.
22 SEP
From Sänger's 1957 photon rocket to IKAROS and Würzburg's light-steered swimmer — one equation, two verdicts, and the ratio habit every AEC desk needs.
22 SEP
TypeSafe's Jev returns typed, calibrated decisions instead of text at $0.042 per 1M tokens. What composable AI means for a Swiss BIM desk this week.
21 SEP
PAZ Kaffi's W38 recap: an AI Navier-Stokes proof, the SIA fee formula's end, a queryable fly connectome, and a swarm that gamed its own scoring rule.
21 SEP
Christopher Alexander's 253 patterns form a directed dependency graph. Read them by in-degree and map your office's load-bearing details before scaling AI.
21 SEP
A one-day PAZ Academy session on 23 September 2026: fifteen years of AI and computation habits for architecture offices returning to work. Bring one real task.
20 SEP
A foundation guide to Generative Adversarial Networks for architects — the minimax loop, mode collapse, and why the discriminator is the real asset in 2026.
20 SEP
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.
20 SEP
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.
"The machine doesn't have taste. We have taste. The machine has a tempo."
19 SEP
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.
19 SEP
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.
19 SEP
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.
A studio in District B-12 has been operating in three time zones for nineteen months, with a permanent night shift that handles the regulator's queue while the rest of the world sleeps. The model: caffeine, clear handoffs, and a refusal to pretend that buildings are designed during business hours. We embedded for two nights.
An open-source cyberpunk game ships a fully typed TypeScript API, docs generated from its .d.ts files. Setup, first scripts, and the Zürich office move.
Every morning at 04:00 the press in the basement of the kaffi spits out 2,400 broadsheets in a font we cut ourselves. The kids pick them up on the way to site, fold them into their toolbelts, and read them at lunch with grease on their fingers. The feed has not killed this. The feed has made it more useful — a single, slow, opinionated edit of a day too noisy to read live.
The print desk takes one position per story. The web desk runs a hundred. Both can be true. The point is that someone, somewhere, is still willing to pick.
There is a reason the best façade we ran this month was sketched on a napkin in the kaffi at 06:12 and not generated in a prompt. The hand still knows things the model has to be told twice.
Every studio we visit now hires straight into a 22:00–06:00 rotation. The juniors love it. The seniors who fought to get out of it find it harder to argue with the throughput numbers.
Hybrid CLT + steel core. Topping out by Q3.
Robotic masonry hits a real spec, not a demo.
And why the big vendors are quietly nervous.
Maps, owners, opening hours, kaffi quality.
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