ArchitectureLM Newsletter
No. 1 · Sep 1, 2026
Release
What the weights decide
The first issue. Three pieces this week, all circling the same question from different sides: how much of what comes out of a rendering tool did you actually decide?
New models this week
Also this week
update
Autodesk Forma extends generative massing to mid-rise typologies
Wind and daylight analysis now runs against generated options rather than a single scheme.
new
RIBA publishes first guidance on AI disclosure in competition entries
Entrants may be required to declare AI-generated imagery. Enforcement remains unclear.
release
Flux.2 Klein adds native LoRA training for architectural styles
Practices can now train on their own render archive rather than fighting generic prompts.
Reading
EXPLAINER
Sep 1, 2026
Open and closed AI models: what the weights decide
Some image models publish their weights as a file you can keep. Others never leave the vendor's servers. That difference decides whether you can teach one to draw like you.
ETHICS
Aug 20, 2026
Who owns an AI render? The authorship question nobody has answered
Copyright offices across three jurisdictions have reached different conclusions. Practices are signing contracts as if they had not.
RENDERING
Aug 27, 2026
What Flux.2 Klein actually does to your massing model
We ran the same Rhino massing through five settings to find where geometry survives and where it quietly dissolves.
Tip of the week
Caption fifty images before you train anything
Before you spend an afternoon on a LoRA, spend an hour writing captions. Fifty of your own renders, each described in one plain sentence — what the building is, what the light is doing, where the camera stands — will beat two hundred uncaptioned images every time. The model learns the words you use, so use the words you would use in a review.
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