In the "Urban Fictions" Series: Rude Landscapes - SPAN 2020. At the last ACADIA conference I presented two of our papers on Architecture and Artificial Intelligence - '3D Graph Convolutional Neural Networks in Architecture Design' and 'How Machines Learn to Plan'. One was presented in the session "Design Cultures, Representation, and Aesthetics". Session Chair Mara Marcu, described the presented work in the session as "Rude" in the most positive sense of the word. Now, some time after the conference, and with some time to ponder the term, I can sympathize with the term. In the sense that it evokes aspects of estrangement and defamiliarization that an aesthetic driven by Neural Networks produces. The estrangement of the foreground. A 'Weird Realism' or a 'Strange Assemblage' (assemblage of code, rather than matter) Do me a favor, and enjoy the Rude Landscapes on a larger screen, or zoom in if you are on a smartphone - then you can dive into the fissures, cracks, orifices, strange dolines and violently rude coloration of the Rude Landscapes. #machinehallucinations #neuralarchitecture #neuralstyletransfer #spanarch #neuralstyle #architecture #landscape #artificialintelligence #AI #design #rudelandscapes #archdaily #archinect #archilovers #suckerpunchdaily #pattern (at Ann Arbor, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIJCbvyM-Nh/?igshid=9xaugh103j30