We took a break from analysing the present and asked an artificial intelligence to generate the vehicles these people have (plausibly) never designed. The results are not those that could have been achieved six months ago, nor those that could be achieved six months from now, and they tell us more about the software's research capacity and the different (often disturbingly asymmetrical) availability of information on Charlotte Perriand or Frank Lloyd Wright. But beware: they also tell us what and how much of these names are part of the cultural heritage floating around the web at this very moment, ready to generate astonishing epiphanies or legendary misunderstandings, depending on what we want to ask of them.

This field is paying more and more attention to the possible uses of deep learning, as shown also by the latest Architectural Design monograph …