Q: What does Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney cover at PAACADEMY?

Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney by Joshua Vermillion is an 8-hour beginner course across 11 lessons covering: text prompting for Midjourney including prompt structure and architectural vocabulary; image prompting using references to guide style and composition; and customizing Midjourney with mood boards and advanced parameters including aspect ratio, style weight, chaos and seed values.

Question 1

What is Manus AI and how can architects use it?

Accepted Answer

Manus AI is an autonomous AI agent platform that executes multi-step tasks including browser interactions, file operations and external tool calls without requiring step-by-step human instruction. For architects, it is applicable to research automation, site data gathering, brief summarization and structured documentation generation. At PAACADEMY, it is taught alongside generative AI tools including Midjourney for architectural design workflows.

Question 2

What does Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney cover at PAACADEMY?

Accepted Answer

Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney by Joshua Vermillion is an 8-hour beginner course across 11 lessons covering: text prompting for Midjourney including prompt structure and architectural vocabulary; image prompting using references to guide style and composition; and customizing Midjourney with mood boards and advanced parameters including aspect ratio, style weight, chaos and seed values.

Question 3

How does Manus AI differ from Midjourney and other generative AI tools at PAACADEMY?

Accepted Answer

Midjourney and similar tools at PAACADEMY generate images from text or image prompts, requiring the user to evaluate and iterate each result. Manus AI operates as an autonomous agent, receiving high-level instructions and executing multi-step task sequences independently, including browser interactions and file operations. Both are part of PAACADEMY's generative AI curriculum for architects, covering different layers of AI-assisted workflows.