Why Architecture Firms Are Building AI Rendering Into Their Standard Workflow

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For decades, architectural rendering followed a predictable pattern: sketch → CAD → send to rendering farm → wait 3-5 days → get results → request revisions → wait again. In 2026, that workflow is being compressed into minutes. The Rendering Bottleneck Is Real Talk to any architecture firm principal and they'll tell you the same thing: rendering is the single biggest time sink in the client presentation pipeline.