50 Claude Use Cases for Architects
A field guide for practising architects, by June Chow and Tianyu Xu.
50 Claude Use Cases for Architects is a practical field guide that shows practising architects how to put Anthropic's Claude AI to work across every stage of practice: site-visit reports, client communications, fee proposals, zoning and market research, design and visualisation, image and video generation, 3D modelling, documentation, code compliance, and running the studio. Written by June Chow and Tianyu Xu.
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The authors
June Chow
Registered Architect · AI for Architects
A registered architect with 20+ years across Malaysia and a generative-AI practitioner. She trains architects internationally, Visiting Lecturer at China Academy of Art (NACAA) and Taylor’s University, and directs the AI for Architects programme at Lighthouse AI Academy. HRD Corp Certified Trainer, author of Generative AI for Architects, and an Architizer Vision Awards juror.
Tianyu Xu
Creative & AI Specialist · Singapore
A creative and AI expert based in Singapore. He co-produced two bestselling AI-image courses on Udemy and partners with major AI labs and creative-AI companies. Claude has been his main creative engine since early 2026, he has built hundreds of Claude Skills used in practice and training. Co-author of Will ChatGPT Take My Job.
The fifty use cases (table of contents)
- 01. Site-visit reports from photos
- 02. Client emails & status reports
- 03. Translation & plain-English simplification
- 04. Pitch decks & presentations
- 05. Fee proposals
- 06. Zoning & planning research, end-to-end
- 07. Industry & market intelligence
- 08. Historical and theoretical study
- 09. Materials and technology comparison
- 10. Heritage & adaptive-reuse analysis
- 11. Drawing-file intelligence
- 12. CAD-to-brief intelligence
- 13. The emotional brief, translated
- 14. Style and typology analysis with vision
- 15. The anti-reference generator
- 16. Process-driven space planning
- 17. Moodboard as a Midjourney control system
- 18. The 9+7 Anchor Matrix
- 19. The Midjourney Control Room
- 20. Façade material studies
- 21. Generating images and video, without leaving Claude
- 22. From sketch to photoreal render, in one window
- 23. Floor-plan exploration through MCP
- 24. Exterior to interior: a system-prompt workflow
- 25. AI-generated visuals, dropped straight into the design
- 26. The LoRA dataset readiness checker
- 27. AI image studio review, after the generation
- 28. Render Polish: a workaround for image enhancement
- 29. Architectural walkthroughs with Seedance 2.0
- 30. Accurate time-lapse construction videos
- 31. From image to 3D model, via the Blender MCP
- 32. Natural-language geometry in Rhino
- 33. Meeting minutes from recordings
- 34. Project setup automation
- 35. The project memory ledger
- 36. Gantt & programme generation
- 37. Cost estimation at concept stage
- 38. Submission package preparation
- 39. Code-compliance pre-check
- 40. The Universal Design Experience Audit
- 41. Invoice & timesheet processing
- 42. The instant Autodesk manual
- 43. Your practice website, built with Claude
- 44. Social media and newsletter writing
- 45. Awards submissions that don’t sound generic
- 46. Job seeking and recruitment: both sides of the table
- 47. AI safety, ethics & ISO 42001 in practice
- 48. Skill, spec-writer
- 49. Skill, mj-prompter (v8.1)
- 50. Claude Code for batch file processing