The topic of the article is issues related to innovative design methods in architecture. Due to the increasingly higher level of technical solutions, the coordination and integration of all industries at individual stages of the investment process-from the concept to the operation phase-becomes important. A comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to planning helps improve the quality of architecture, reduces errors, reduces operating costs, saves energy, and minimizes the negative impact on the environment. A tool increasingly used in design are artificial intelligence algorithms. Thanks to their use, investment activities can become even more integrated. Artificial intelligence opens new possibilities in the connection and use of many information systems and databases. AI programs allow you to create images of planned objects in the form of virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). The effects are intriguing due to the ease of use, quick implementation, attractiveness and mul-ti-variant solutions. At the same time, ethical doubts arise regarding copyrights to projects created in this way. In many cases, they are created using the achievements of other archi-tects. Artificial intelligence is constantly being developed. It is increasingly used not only for analytical but also creative tasks. In such a situation, does it become real competition for architects?