| 摘要: |
| 针对人工智能应用带来的建筑师地
位作用受到质疑的问题，从协同论与建筑设
计系统的契合性出发，在分析建筑设计模式
演变的基础上，应用协同论中的序参量原
理，量化阐释建筑设计全流程系统，将建筑
师和人工智能置于不同设计阶段的设计主
体、设计工具和设计产品三个子系统之中，
分析其中的协同关系。发现建筑设计系统内
部从无序到有序的转变，是通过设计主体的
主导作用与工具的辅助作用相互协同，进而
生成设计产品的过程。在这个过程中，建筑
师主导作用显著，处于创新性主体的地位；
人工智能辅助作用明显，处于重复性主体地
位，二者相互协同，提升了建筑设计的效
率，推动了建筑领域的创新发展。研究为人
工智能时代更好发挥建筑师的创新主导作用
提供了有益理论探索。 |
| 关键词: 人工智能 协同论 建筑师 建筑
设计模式 主体性 |
| DOI：10.13791/j.cnki.hsfwest.20250518003 |
| 分类号: |
| 基金项目:2022 年度重庆市教育委员会科学技术项目（KJQN202212906） |
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| Analysis of design subjectivity between architects and artificial intelligence from theperspective of synergetics |
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LI Zhen,ZENG Bin,HOU Bo,LIU Zhiyong
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| Abstract: |
| With the increasingly deep and widespread application of artificial intelligence technology
in the architecture field, architectural design models are undergoing a profound intelligent
transformation. While this trend brings innovative opportunities to the industry, it also presents
architects with a core challenge: how to re-establish their unique value and professional positioning
within the new paradigm of AI proliferation. Clarifying the respective areas of expertise of architects
and AI, as well as the working relationship between the two, has become key to constructing highquality
future human habitats. Although existing research has explored human-computer interaction
from perspectives such as human-machine symbiosis, automation models, and generative design,
most findings focus on specific stages like drawing rendering or inspiration generation. There is still a
lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for analyzing the collaborative relationship between
architects and AI from the perspective of the entire architectural design workflow. To address this
research gap, this paper introduces synergetics as the core theoretical framework. This study first
demonstrates the high compatibility between architectural design and synergetics: architectural design, as a
macroscopically ordered complex system, contains internal stage subsystems (e.g., programming, schematic
design, construction documents) and elemental subsystems (e.g., design agent, design tools, design product).
The system’s evolution from disorder to order results precisely from the synergistic interactions of these
internal subsystems. Furthermore, this paper systematically reviews the evolution of architectural design
models, revealing how tool iterations—from hand-drawing to BIM, and then to AI—have reshaped the
design process and facilitated AI’s transition from an auxiliary tool to a role possessing dual attributes of
both “subject” and “tool”. The core methodology of this research lies in applying the order parameter
principle of synergetics. This paper innovatively proposes quantifying the order parameter using the number
of “subject-object” associations to describe the strength of synergistic interactions between subsystems. By
constructing a “subject-tool-product” system analysis model covering the three stages of programming,
schematic design, and construction documents, it calculated and analyzed the proportions of architects
and AI acting as subjects (leaders) and objects (assistants) in each stage. The research finds that
throughout the entire architectural design process, architects consistently maintain a dominant role as
the innovative subject. Their subjectivity proportion is the highest, although it slightly decreases as
the process advances. AI primarily manifests as a highly objective, repetitive subject, with its
subjectivity proportion showing an increasing trend. The synergistic relationship between them is
essentially a slaving relationship between the “creative subject” and the “repetitive subject”. The
architect’s “value-driven intention” (slow variable) dominates and calibrates AI’s “function-driven
intention” (fast variable), ensuring that design outcomes consistently serve human value orientations.
A case study (Xu Weiguo’s “3D Printed Coffee House”) verifies the operability of this analytical
model, visually demonstrating how the architect leads value judgments in a specific project, while AI
efficiently performs generation and optimization tasks. This paper concludes that the core value of
architects in the AI era lies in their irreplaceable role as innovative subjects, leading value-driven,creative work. AI, as an exceptional repetitive subject, is responsible for efficiently completing functional, repetitive tasks. Their collaboration jointly propels
the architectural design system towards greater efficiency and order. By applying synergetics and a quantitative order parameter method, this study provides a
systematic new perspective and theoretical tool for understanding human-AI collaboration. It not only addresses the industry’s concern about “whether
architects will be replaced” but also, on epistemological and methodological levels, offers necessary theoretical exploration and practical guidance for
consolidating the architect's leading role in innovation and promoting the sustainable development of the architecture discipline in the age of AI. |
| Key words: artificial intelligence synergetics architects architectural design modes subjectivity |
