Norman Foster

then some of the most interesting things that we've done architecturally have not gone before.

So the points that I was making about creating a tower without a central core and taking that central core, artificial intelligence is not gonna tell you about that.

It's gonna tell you everything

that it knows about central core buildings.

It's backward looking.

So artificial intelligence is accumulated history.

What is history?

It's the past.

So that is going to make it even more important for those who use all the advantages of artificial intelligence but are not inhibitedly dependent on it.

Maybe it's a bit like going into the home of Steve Jobs and finding a rare book on a pedestal.

The rare book becomes even more valuable in the digital age.

I'm often invoking buildings from the past.

for their importance, not just in terms of nostalgia, but for the lessons that we can learn from them.

So if I take the solar-powered community of an educational institute like Masdar, which is totally solar-powered in the desert, that was only made possible

by applying the lessons from an architecture of the past, which didn't have access to instant

electrical energy to power air conditioning so it was about scaling streets for people and not cars creating shadow orientation it was about evaporative cooling which meant bringing in vegetation it was about colonnades for shade it was about layering a building it was about capturing the cool air at a

at a height above and funneling it through wind towers and so on.

Applying all of those lessons and then the technology of our age.

So able to demonstrate that we can have the living qualities that we take for granted, but solar powered in a very, very hostile environment.

So that is learning from an architecture without architects.