ARCHITECTURAL INTELLIGENCE | The second digital turn: Artificial Intelligence in Architecture

Andreea Robu-Movilă

Curator Architectural Intelligence Conference, Publisher SHARE Architects PHD at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism „Ion Mincu” Bucharest

Neil Leach

British architect and theorist with over 40 books on architectural theory and digital design

Neil Leach holds a Master of Arts degree and a Diploma of Architecture degree from the University of Cambridge, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from the University of Nottingham. Neil Leach is a Professor at the European Graduate School, Visiting Professor at Harvard University and Tongji University, an Adjunct Professor at the USC School of Architecture at the University of Southern California, and NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow. He has also taught at the University of Brighton, University of Bath, Architectural Association School of Architecture, University of Nottingham, Columbia University, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, Royal Danish Academy of Art, Dessau Institute of Architecture, and Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and currently a professor at Florida International University. His more recent work has developed in the direction of materialism and computation, inspired in part by the work of Gilles Deleuze and Manuel DeLanda but also by new scientific thinking. This informs his curatorial work and design teaching which engage extensively with scripting and digital fabrication. He is the co-recipient of two NASA grants to explore the potential use of the robotic fabrication technology, Contour Crafting, for building structures on the Moon and Mars. Leach has been involved extensively in China, where he directed the American Academy in China for several years. He was the co-curator (with Xu Weiguo) of the A2 Exhibition of Avant-Garde Architecture at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2004, the Emerging Talents, Emerging Technologies Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2006, the (Im)material Processes Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2008, and the Machinic Processes Exhibition at the Architecture Biennial Beijing 2010.

George Guida

Harvard Laboratory for Design Technologies, co-founder of ArchiTAG LLP

Carlos Navarro holds a Master of Design Research from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and a Diploma of Architecture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is an architectural designer with a work background from firms in Los Angeles and Lima, including OFFICEUNTITLED, Steinberg Hart, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, and MASUNOSTUDIO. His work has been published on digital platforms such as ArchDaily, Frame, Architect Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, SuckerPUNCH, etc. He has participated in jury panels at OTIS College of Art and Design in LA and at computational design workshops in Lima and has taught computational design courses at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. His research on AI and ML workflows applied to architecture has been divulged through workshops and talks at CAADRIA 2022 Post-Carbon Conference, DigitalFUTURES 2022: One Planet Conference, DigitalFUTURES Talks & Tutorials, and Sunken Blimp: Dive Live Series on Creative AI.

Daniel Bolojan

Nonstandardstudio, Computational Design Specialist at CoopHimmelblau

Daniel Bolojan is the founder of Nonstandardstudio, a Senior Architect – Computational Design Specialist at CoopHimmelblau, an Assistant Professor of AI and Computational Design at Florida Atlantic University’s School of Architecture, and a Ph.D. candidate at Die Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He is a leading voice in the implementation of AI strategies in architecture and the architectural design process. Over the years, he has taught several design studios and seminars at the Institute of Structure and Design-University of Innsbruck, Florida International University Miami, and has led numerous international workshops and conference workshops on the application of complex systems and Neural Networks in architectural design. He established his own research studio, Nonstandardstudio, in 2013. Daniel’s design research has evolved over the years as a result of Nonstandardstudio’s work at the intersection of generative design, computation, multi-agent systems, machine learning, and deep learning. Upon graduation, he joined the internationally renowned architectural practice CoopHimmelb(l)au as a Computational Designer, where he had the opportunity to work on numerous internationally renowned projects and competitions. Shortly after joining CoopHimmelblau, Daniel held the position of Junior Associate, Computational Design Specialist & Founder, and Head of Chbl|Code. As the head of Chbl|Code, he held the leading role of developing custom computational design tools, computational design strategies, virtual and augmented reality applications, machine learning tools and neural networks, and robotic fabrication processes. He is responsible for the office’s current drive to develop deep learning strategies aimed at augmenting the designer’s native abilities via the DeepHimmelblau neural network.

Carlos Navarro

Architectural designer at OFFICEUNTITLED

Carlos Navarro holds a Master of Design Research from the Southern California Institute of Architecture, and a Diploma of Architecture from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He is an architectural designer with a work background from firms in Los Angeles and Lima, including OFFICEUNTITLED, Steinberg Hart, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, and MASUNOSTUDIO. His work has been published on digital platforms such as ArchDaily, Frame, Architect Magazine, The Architect’s Newspaper, SuckerPUNCH, etc. He has participated in jury panels at OTIS College of Art and Design in LA and at computational design workshops in Lima and has taught computational design courses at Universidad de Los Andes, Bogota. His research on AI and ML workflows applied to architecture has been divulged through workshops and talks at CAADRIA 2022 Post-Carbon Conference, DigitalFUTURES 2022: One Planet Conference, DigitalFUTURES Talks & Tutorials, and Sunken Blimp: Dive Live Series on Creative AI.

Claudiu Bârsan

Founder Neomorph Studio

With studies and experience in various related fields of architecture and urban planning, such as fine arts, game technology, complexity theory, engineering, programming and music, Claudiu Bârsan is a computational designer who develops multidisciplinary projects, operating at the intersection between science and art in his works. He studied architecture at "Ion Mincu" in Bucharest and at "École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture" in Toulouse, and in 2017 he founded Neomorph Studio in Brașov, where he actively explores together with a young interdisciplinary team the applicability of new technologies such as Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) or Brain Computer Interface (BCI) in the field of architecture and design in general. He was a professor of Procedural Design in Game Technology at the "Breda University of Applied Sciences" in the Netherlands, and was also a visiting workshop professor at the "Ion Mincu" University in Bucharest. He is currently a PhD student in the international program "Digital Futures" at Tongji University in Shanghai, under the supervision of Professors Neil Leach and Patrick Schumacher, where he explores how artificial intelligence and generative design methods can create dynamic virtual spaces, which to respond to human emotions or even induce them.