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Deep Learning Architect

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This paper applies state-of-the-art techniques in deep learning and computer vision to measure visual similarities between architectural de-signs by different architects. Using a dataset consisting of web-scraped images and an original collection of images of architectural works, we first train a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) model capable of achieving 73% accuracy in classifying works belonging to 34 differ-ent architects. By examining the weights in the trained DCNN model, we are able to quantitatively measure the visual similarities between ar-chitects that are implicitly learned by our model. Using this measure, we cluster architects that are identified to be similar and compare our findings to conventional classification made by architectural historians and theorists. Our clustering of architectural designs remarkably cor-roborates conventional views in architectural history, and the learned architectural features also cohere with the traditional understanding of architectural designs.