With the rapid development and accessibility of machine learning technologies, we are questioning what it means to be human and to be machine. The Bauhaus institution, as an artistic reaction to rapid advances of technology, is applicable through visualization and production. Beginning under Walter Gropius, the Bauhaus questioned the human, the body, consciousness, intelligence and how these compare to or are diminished by new technology. Architects must understand and guide AI as it challenges architectural notions of space and aesthetics. Bauhaus adaptations and modifications to design will continue to evolve architecture and its relation to technology and intelligence. 

Both the Bauhaus and AI are instigators of new production and design techniques. The Bauhaus emerged as a way of rethinking and redesigning one's surroundings through focusing on craft and functionality, as an act of societal and political resistance. Whereas ai is a tool to reimagine or imagine something for the first time with questionable ties to reality, potentially resulting in societal and political resistance. The connection of re-doing/imagining/creating between Bauhaus and AI relies on understanding how the Bauhaus embraced resistance, capitalized on mass production, and questioned the human body. 

Through experimentation the Bauhaus contended with the catastrophic results of WW1 (1914-1918) caused by machines. The awareness that new machines were deadly resulted in a need to define the modern world and both the roles of man and machine. Ideas of rejection, harmony, and progress are debated in the context of the “new man”.

The covid pandemic is a parallel to WW1 as an awakening to the effects of technology and the need to understand the relationship between human and machine. However, now humans are the “deadly” agent and machines and production suffer while contributing to the misinformation that increased the fatality of covid. In a shut down world technology is an accessible way to reactivate production. This led to a boom in machine aided communication and collaboration in all disciplines. As communication methods innovated physical technology suffered from systemic issues exaggerated by a lack of human participation. A machine with missing parts is not better than a sick person in the face of capitalism. 

When factories cannot run and people no longer have access to creative spaces, we make new ones. In a world that values productivity, digital over physical production is encouraged due to efficiency. As the 1920’s saw a shift from human production to mass machine production, we are seeing a shift from machine aided physical production to fully digital production. The design studio/factory/workshop is now a series of softwares for collaboration, generation, and ultimately experience. In this digital world AI is the machine for mass production.