Three years of GenIA development: a retrospective on building an AI culture and AI tools within an architecture firm

enia architectes has always sought to combine pragmatism, creativity, and sensitivity in developing its projects, in order to provide responses that are both original and tailored to their uses and contexts.

This approach, at the core of its identity, is one that artificial intelligence, without being ignored, was never going to fundamentally upend, despite the wave of hype surrounding it. Keeping its distance from both alarmist and, conversely, techno-enthusiast discourse, enia has thus approached AI not as a creative force but as a powerful lever for internal optimization and decision support. In this sense, its arrival has notably provided an opportunity to question our current practices and past knowledge with an exploratory, critical, and technical stance.

A retrospective on three years of development with François MUZARD, architect and digital manager, and Paul LENAIN, developer within the research department. They will discuss the internal rollout of a comprehensive strategy, both cultural and technical, built around a specially designed artificial intelligence tool, GenIA.

As a sovereign in-house platform, they will explain how this augmented research ecosystem works, drawing on the firm's documentary resources to give every employee local, fully traceable assistance.

In other words: how to make projects more relevant and robust, without ever letting the tool substitute for the architect's professional judgment and responsibility.

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