Midjourney is a generative text-to-image tool that uses AI to create beautiful images based on the text prompts that you provide. This tool is improving exponentially, and people are starting to discover its potential to create beautiful architectural images.
Although these images may not be directly applicable to building construction, they have a number of interest use cases:
- Inspiration: Serve as a source of inspiration for architects and designers
- Mood boards and style explorations: Help architects and designers define the aesthetic and emotional aspects of a project
- Entertainment and storytelling: These images can be incorporated into all kinds of media, such as movies, video games or books.
In this article, we’ll show you 55 prompts you can copy and paste into Midjourney to create stunning architectural designs.
Futuristic Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Cinematic photo, highly detailled, futuristic, 3D printed, clay, geometric, architectural villa, with artificial lighting, different kinds of vegetation landscaping, daylight, exotic, foggy, octane render, maximum render detail
Prompt: Modern home made of black glass covered by lush green landscape, mysterious, octane render, cinematic, rule of thirds
Prompt: Afrofuturist megamansion ecovillage in the congo rainforest, tropical architecture, cinematic lighting, vibrant colors, saturated hues, photorealistic, hyper realistic, surreal, dali, 3d rendering, render, 8k, 16k, extremely detailed, unreal engine, octane, maya
Prompt: Wooden tall building covered with metal flowers into a forest, banana trunk inspiration
Prompt: Metamorphic parametric organic synthetic houses in a giant tree, full hd octain render
Prompt: PREFAB MODERN VILLA INSIDE A FOREST FILLED WITH RAIN DROPS AND FOG ..8K,DETAILED,RAINING,VIBRANT,
SHOT BY SANTOSH SIVAN…
Prompt: cinematic photo, highly detailed, futuristic, 3D printed, clay, geometric, architectural villa, with artificial lighting, different kinds of vegetation landscaping, daylight, exotic, foggy, octane render, maximum render detail
Prompt: A waterfall in front of a modern house in the woods, a digital rendering by Maginel Wright Enright Barney, pinterest, modernism, provia, creative commons attribution, biomorphic
Prompt: Architecture illustration of white designer houses in hill in forest with lots of vegetation, bushes, trees, happy people walking and enjoying sunshine, scandinavian design, contemporary architecture, white houses, modern, futuristic, trees, photorealistic, v-ray tracing, ultra detailed, octane render
Prompt: A photo of a modern farmhouse style treehouse, overlooking a lake, atmospheric, cinematic, movie lighting, high resolution, award winning architecture, authentic, magical, photorealistic, photo, realistic, sharp photography, ultradetailed, highly focused, dramatic render, 8k hd, octane render, locati architects
Prompt: Ewok houses in giant trees in Renzo Piano architecture
Prompt: Glamping cabins with mesquites nearby
Prompt: Orthographic perspective, exterior, four story home with a bamboo garden, Sunny weather, house architecture, wood construction, wood house, mid-century modern design, cedar wood house, realistic, ultra-realistic, film photograph, Fujichrome Velvia 100F
Prompt: Philip Johnson’s Glass House in the rainforest, a sense of luxury and style, elegant, sunny, realistic, ultra-realistic, film photograph, Cinestill 800T
Brutalist Architecture Prompts
Prompt: architecture sand concrete monolith big building on fire brutalist monumental symetric texture barbican cinematic unreal engine raw
Prompt: vast landscape, dozens of huge Yugoslavian monuments brutalist architecture, futuristic nomads wandering around the base of the monuments, light foggy atmosphere, realistic photograph, 8k, very detailed, film photography by Julius Shulman –upbeta –v 4
Prompt: photorealistic streetscape, simple brutalist architecture, white neon lights, neon signs, flying vehicles, pedestrians, greg rutkowski, syd mead, ralph mcquarrie, concept art, matte painting, finely detailed, minimal artifacts, rule of thirds, dynamic lighting, cinematic, denoised, centered, artstation
Prompt: brutalist otherwordly architecture, style of Hélène Binet
Line Drawing Architecture Prompts
Prompt: architectural floorplan of curve spilling, wide balconies with integrated seating ::4
connecting apartment to each other ::1
Prompt: architectural floor plan of apartment building, symmetrical layout
Prompt: isometric floor plan
Prompt: apartment tower, timber weatherboard, coastal style
Prompt: a modernism architecture section, Exterminator style, green colour ::2
, strong Bark wrinkles pattern, Relief carving. The Infinity Gauntlet pattern on it. ::1
Prompt: CAD drawing cad floorplan glitched together with a section and an elevation of a post modern memphis building
Prompt: architectural floorplan of curve spilling
Prompt: architecture drawing of curve spilling
Otherworldly Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Metabolic architecture villa in the mountains designed by Zaha Hadid, continuous white surface with exposed seams, volumetric caustic lighting, photorealistic render, soft reflections, HQ
Prompt: Beautiful modern cut stone and bronze steel metal futuristic house , trees , birds people walking close up wide angle aerial views 8k unreal engine cgi
Prompt: Geoffrey Bawa Kundalahalli architecture inspired by Zaha hadid building in a future city glass building in a forest
Prompt: Planet house, architecture, cycles render
Prompt: Villa sitting in purple landscape, designed by Vincent Callebaut, opulence details, architecture, architectural composition, aerial front view
Prompt: Fabric mathematical surfaces architecture skyscraper/contemporany/parametric architecture/organic structure /sunset/fog/hyper realistic/super detailed complex structure / floating temple in ice age/ super detailed/ hyper realistic/ muqarnas / parametric / fantastic temple/ smoke/ 8k
Prompt: A contemporary, sustainable Hospital campus in Ukiah, Ukiah , photorealistic, Northern Calif , Ukiah , in the style of architecture
Prompt: Inflatable architecture pavilion in city
Prompt: Futuristic skyscraper with greens growing and flowering all over
Prompt: Radiolaria framework scaffolding is support for multistory building with hanging gardens balconies growing out of bedrock laminated wood material towers in the background volumetric light sunlight hdri
Prompt: Solarpunk gardens, realistic, natural, 8k, vibrant, sculpture, architecture, environment, city, forest
Prompt: architectural photograph of a tower made from stacked inflated, lightweight, transparent and thin cushiony plastic geometries. On a dark Icelandic beach. Sunset, foggy, misty. Wide angle, cinematic, ultra realistic
3D Architecture Prompts
Prompt: a hi res three dimensional realistic style, a morden style one level villa, with a really wide balcony, and the balcony is also really big, the owner can BBQ, and hold a party,
Prompt: moden tower building
Prompt: a creative office space based on this 3d model, wooden furniture, spatial elements, spaces, working desks with computers facing each others, meeting table, chairs, lighting fixtures, plants, books, decorations, turquoise logo
Prompt: 3d model of modern art gallery, architecture, design by Walter Gropius, 4K,
Prompt: bauhaus isometric building designed by Klee, Kandinsky, Albers, Moholy – Nagy, van der Rohe
Prompt: Architecture 3D model section inspired by termite mound, 3D model section, intricate and full of detail 3D model section, Architecture section, Termite Mound, Biomorphic architecture, detailed, cinematic light, unreal engine,
Prompt: The geometric top view of a three – dimensional fractal building inspired by [Pagoda of Fogong Temple], the Chinese classical tower, surrealism, Atompunk style, the tower body has not too much detail. It is a simple and clean toy like building in the style of Pixar Animation, with a sense of giant. Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum cluster around the tower, and white cranes fly around the tower. It has a very bright light effect. It is located in the center of the image and has an organic shape, Highly fine, natural and satisfactory texture, dramatic light, hard light, full device, light shadow gradient background, 8k uhd octane rendering
Prompt: This modern house, designed by samurai warriors, exudes a sense of strength and grace. The exterior, crafted with precision and attention to detail, reflects the values of the ancient warriors. The use of clean lines and a minimalist aesthetic creates a sense of calm, while the use of materials such as concrete and metal adds a sense of durability. The interplay of light and shadow on the exterior adds depth and dimension to the overall design. This house is a true masterpiece, a tribute to the legacy of the samurai and a testament to the timeless beauty of minimalism
Prompt: modern elegant and raunchy architecture house next to the beach
Prompt: transluscent facade with organic holes and light inside
Contemporary Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Architecture design modern contemporary
Prompt: three storey very modern minimalist structure made of studs
Prompt: Ultra elegant modern building, trending on instagram, trending on Pinterest, trending on architecture magazine, trending on design magazine, award winning building design, ultra hd, ultra realistic
Prompt: Architecture design modern contemporary
Prompt: architecture, 🏠 back surface, modern style, epic composition
Prompt: abstract modern architect design, 8k
Prompt: architectural house with white fabric facade, modern, minimal, neronal, futuristic, render 8k
Prompt: White grey ultra luxury modern house, with pool and amazing horizont, ultra graphics, 4k ultrahd, realize
Gothic Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Gothic architecture, Baroque art
Prompt: Gothic architecture of the future, hyperrealism, high quality, 8k
Prompt: gothic cathedral flat image 2d chaotic architecture for goths remdering lone drawing massive detail
Prompt: Gothic revival mansion, Victorian Gothic mansion, building, architectural details, technical drawing photography, hyperrealistic, artstation, realistic, Octane render, Unreal Engine, national geographic colors, consistently sharp focus, high resolution, insanely detailed and intricate, hypermaximalist, elegant, ornate
Byzantine Architecture Prompts
Prompt: byzantine church front
Prompt: Medieval, Byzantine style view, ancient Greek, Byzantine art style, unity, HD, 8K, ultra detail, ultra realistic, game background,
Prompt: shintoist temple in neo – byzantine architecture
Prompt: Byzantium, Byzantine Architecture, middle byzantine, byzantine, constantinople ::1
Minarets ::-0.5
Islamic Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Arabic style architecture, Islamic style architecture
Prompt: hyper realistic, 4. Alhambra Palace: Exquisite carvings, delicate filigree, mesmerizing courtyard designs, the emir is present, 4k, cinematic, ethereal
Prompt: iw 2 Interior view of Mosque
Prompt: An artistic view of a mosque interior, with light streaming in, creating a beautiful and serene atmosphere. Exquisite detail, 30 – megapixel, 4k, 35 – mm – lens, sharp – focus, f: 8, ISO 100, shutter – speed 1: 125, diffuse – back – lighting, award – winning photograph, small – catchlight, high – sharpness, 8k
Persian Architecture Prompts
Prompt: a dslr photo of a Persian architectural style house, high resolution 8K
Prompt: photo of Persian palace with colorful traditional Turkish ornaments, beautiful details and Mashrabiya balconies
Prompt: modern old arab style architectural home design exterior view in saudi downtown skyline
Prompt: persian garden style home, front perspective view, Sony A1, Sony FE 16 – 35mm f/ 2. 8 GM, architecture photography, morning light, dappled sunshine, cinematic lighting, photo realistic, rule of thirds
Victorian Architecture Prompts
Prompt: Large complex of Victorian multi – storey homes
Prompt: photo of a victorian architecture from front side
Prompt: outdoor of a victorian house in London. High level of detail. Tourism photo style. f2/ 8
Prompt: Historic Victorian Residence: In this photograph, a grand Victorian residence stands as a testament to the elegance of a bygone era. The house features ornate architectural details, including intricate woodwork, decorative trim, and a wrap – around porch. The color palette highlights the classic charm of the Victorian style, with a combination of soft pastels and rich hues. The photograph captures the house from an angle that showcases its imposing presence and captures the essence of its historical significance. Close – up，high – definition, bright, super rialistec, 8K,
Art Nouveau Architecture Prompts
Prompt: art nouveau house, 3 domes, one story
Prompt: photo of a building exterior designed by hector guimard
Prompt: an interesting building in front of a city street, in the style of art nouveau organic forms, resin, helene knoop, psychedelic overload, rococo interiors, jean nouvel, passage
Prompt: igor folsch, galerie de luxembourg paris, in the style of nature – inspired art nouveau, grandiose architecture, turquoise and emerald, urban fairy tale, ornamental details and embellishments, organic architecture, arched doorways
Art Deco Architecture Prompts
Prompt: an art deco building
Prompt: Art Deco architecture, warm glow, ground – level perspective during twilight.
Prompt: building in Secession architecture by Joseph Maria Olbrich in Australia
Prompt: very ornate white colored los angeles art deco rowhouse blocks with strong vertical and horizontal lines, art deco details, and gold, copper, wood and silver futurism and art noveau accents designed by Frank Lloyd Wright with classic 1950s and 1960s color coordinated cars in the foreground, high quality canon 75MP photograph
Mid-century modern Architecture Prompts
Prompt: The primary exterior color will be a burnt orange hue that harks back to the iconic colors used in mid – century architecture, providing a vibrant contrast to the natural surroundings. This house will maintain the long, low lines and wide roof overhangs characteristic of mid – century modern design, and the roofline itself will be flat or slightly sloped in a nod to the style’s minimalist sensibilities.
Prompt: exterior view of house in Hollywood hills, in the style of Philip Johnson, case study house influenced, neutra
Prompt: mid century modern house
Prompt: midcentury modern a 30ft wide by 100ft depth, 2 story house
Postmodern Architecture Prompts
Prompt: an inclusive version of the modulor le corbusier on 35mm film.
Prompt: post – modern architecture
Prompt: hotel de l aire by mike thiel photography, in the style of fauvist color palette, art deco futurism, seaside vistas, simplified colors, bright glazes, light pink and emerald, flickr
Prompt: 3d model of a beautiful serene modern home with trippy abstract sharp wall designs. Confusing architecture full of optical illusions
High Tech Architecture Prompts
Prompt: zaha hadid style, dicontruction building, High – rise building with deconstruction style, with helipad
Prompt: Architecture, the art and science of designing built environments, serves as a powerful predictor of health within American society. Its influence extends beyond aesthetics and functionality, shaping various aspects of our lives, including economic stability, the physical environment or neighborhood, education, food, community and societal context, and the healthcare system. Through its intentional design choices, architecture creates and impacts these interconnected elements, ultimately influencing the well – being and health outcomes of individuals and communities. define this idea with imagery. do not show text. create an appealing image typical of those shown on the front page of a world renowned magazine.
Prompt: modern architecture, futuristic office, contemporary, design up in the clouds
Prompt: Future building, sense of technology, minimalist style,
Vernacular Architecture Prompts
Prompt: tornei houban ancient buildings in thom phong district, cambodia, in the style of timber frame construction, barbizon school, 32k uhd, mingei, cold and detached atmosphere, hurufiyya, religious building
Prompt: Traditional African Mud Hut. Rustic, simple, earthy, traditional, cozy. Mirrorless camera. Standard lens. Late afternoon. Documentary style. Color film.
Prompt: Vernacular modern architecture
Prompt: caluyanon tribe architecture
If you’re as excited as us about learning how to use Midjourney and create AI art, then make sure you check out our guide on advanced Midjourney prompts.
Further Resources
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