Instead of hiring an architect, artificial intelligence software could one day design your new home or office.

AI is already influencing architecture. New technologies ranging from smart speakers to smart thermostats are changing the way architects think about living and working. But the architecture of the future designed by AI could be unlike anything else, according to the authors of a new paper in the International Journal of Architectural Computing.

“The result is something new, different, strange, odd and wonderfully beautiful — perhaps the first truly 21st-century architecture,” Matias del Campo, an associate professor of architecture at the University of Michigan and one of the researchers who conducted the study, said in an email interview.

In their recent study, del Campo and his colleagues used algorithms to create imaginary designs. They worked with DeepDream, a neural network-based model that simulates the brain processes that allow people to have psychedelic dreams, and fed it with architectural plans from the Baroque and modern eras.