Sorry to Spoil the Party
Chapter 3 - Using the “Text to Image” generators for ideation and illustration has become a staple in our office over the past months. Moodboards, facade samples, patterns for Photoshop - countless opportunities to reach into the candy jar and to indulge in the beauty of our profession. Most of the time however we need things a bit more specific. And specific is not really the strong side of AI.
We tested a few. Results vary from hilarious to promising. The first usable results were undoubtedly achieved when running on a local computer a variant of StableDiffusion with ControlNet in combination with models obtained though CivitAI that were specifically trained for architectural image generation.
Late 2024 we migrated to Invoke. And since the beginning of 2025 new contestants are coming in week by week.
Our Tests
▶️ Urban Resi - a combination of several tools in sequence to simulate something we would view as an automated design concept for residential projects.
▶️ Seleit - one exemplar model by Ismael Seleit.