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Designing with Dialogue: The Lighting Designer’s AI Prompt Companion
How smart prompting transforms vague briefs into clear lighting strategies, bridging emotion, function, and context without opening a single lighting…
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Sahil Tanveer
Kontext: New Tool Alert-The Easiest Way to Tweak Your Designs
A quick start guide for architects and designers to generate and edit visuals using text, directly in your browser.
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Sahil Tanveer
What You Really Need to Know Before You Start Using AI: AI Fundamentals for Architects
Understanding tools and the evolving grammar of collaboration in a multi-modal world. Learn the foundations of AI in Architecture the right way-with…
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Sahil Tanveer

May 2025

AI Fundamentals for Architects: A Starter Manual for the Curious Designer
A field guide to recalibrating design intuition through machines that think, sketch, and whisper back.
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Sahil Tanveer
Prompt Personalities: How to Collaborate With ChatGPT and Claude
A practical guide to crafting better prompts tailored to the unique temperaments of each model — with side-by-side examples, techniques, and insights…
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Sahil Tanveer
Creative Intelligence: How ChatGPT and Claude Shape Different Workflows
Let’s take a closer look at how two AI collaborators unlock different dimensions of creativity, ideation, and project development.
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Sahil Tanveer
When the Lab Became a Language: A Year of Becoming
A lot can happen in a year—tools evolve, ideas shift, people surprise you. This is a quiet reflection on what we built, what we broke, and what we’re…
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Sahil Tanveer

April 2025

Decoding Lighting Simulations with AI: A Real-World Experiment
Can ChatGPT make sense of a DIALux simulation? Join us as we test how AI simplifies the complex world of lighting reports and elevates design thinking.
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Sahil Tanveer
Illuminated Intelligence: Where Lighting Design Meets Learning and the Algorithm
A field guide to designing with intelligence—where light is not just placed, but conversed with. Includes 6 studio-tested prompts to turn AI into a…
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Sahil Tanveer
ChatGPT as an Architect’s Collaborator: A Prompt Manual for Cognitive Co-Design
A manual of sorts, yes - but more so, a cartography of how design begins to bend, twist, and evolve when conversation itself becomes the act of…
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Sahil Tanveer
The Architect’s AI Roadmap: From Curiosity to Scalable Innovation
Before we design with AI, we must first design for it. This is the AI Integration Roadmap you were waiting for! Let's Go!
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Sahil Tanveer
Embracing the Invisible Hand: How GPT-4o and MCP are Redefining the Architect’s Canvas
Are You Ready to Chat Your Way to Better Designs? Speaking your way to better designs is also coming up-but first, lets chat!
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Sahil Tanveer
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