Zihao Zhang

Zihao Zhang

Zihao Zhang is a designer, educator, and scholar in landscape architecture. As a landscape theorist, he provides critical analyses of the entanglement between nature and technology, the human and nonhuman realms, as well as ecosystems and intelligent machines. Through building transdisciplinary investigation across design, engineering, and environmental humanities, his book Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment interrogates the ramifications of cybernetics on contemporary culture and the constructed environment. Zihao serves as an assistant professor and director of the landscape architecture program at the City College of New York Spitzer School of Architecture.

… what is the stage of AI in and outside the profession and discipline of landscape architecture? Many firms are now incorporating Generative AI into their workflow. Firms such as SWA have been able to fund research fellows exploring generative AI. Anecdotally, I have learned that other firms have similar internal initiatives. One trend is using LoRA (Low-Rank Adaptation of Large Language Models), a lightweight training technique that can “fine-tune” one’s Stable Diffusion models to generate images in a certain style.

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