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Robotic Toolpaths, Design-Tech Talk 9.0, Generative Architecture & More
🎓 Learn from pioneers in the field how to use advanced parametric design tools, AI in design workflows, and computational design in architecture!
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Missed the last workshop or want to revisit the content? No worries! The recordings are available to watch whenever you need: Advanced Grasshopper 3.0: NURBS, Mesh & Volumetric Design Systems
🔥 Brand New Workshop!
Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney workshop uses Midjourney as a generative design partner to rapidly explore architectural ideas, atmospheres, and spatial concepts.
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Let’s take a look at what we have in the upcoming weeks! ✨
This Weekend! Robotic Fabrication for Irregular Geometry
In this technical workshop, we will explore the latest frameworks for digitising complex objects and generating complex, surface-aware robotic toolpaths that adapt to their unique topology. This workshop provides an in-depth exploration of the generation of computational toolpaths. The technical workflows required to generate valid instructions for any robot will be covered.
▶️ Getting Started with AI? Our YouTube Guides Are Live!
ComfyUI Desktop App Installation GuideWhether you're new to ComfyUI, a powerful and flexible tool for working with AI image generation workflows, or looking for a smoother installation method, this step-by-step guide is perfect for you. | How to Turn Rhino3D Models into AI Concept Renders with SDXL & ControlNetLearn how to turn Rhino3D models into AI-driven conceptual renders using ComfyUI, SDXL, and ControlNet. |
Design-Tech Talk 9.0
Step into the future of design innovation with Design-Tech Talk 9.0, a two-day online event exploring the evolving relationship between architecture, technology, and digital design. Across a series of curated sessions, the event will examine how emerging technologies are reshaping creative practice, from AI-driven design workflows and computational thinking to digital fabrication and sustainable innovation. Each session will combine focused presentations with open discussions, connecting conceptual ideas to real-world design challenges.
AI-Powered Interior Design in Architecture
This workshop is designed to provide custom & professional workflows for applying AI across different interior design stages. Participants will learn how to use AI tools to accelerate the process from early concept and mood development to actual design variations, material exploration, and high-quality visualizations.
Reverse Engineering with AI
In this workshop, we focus on connected AI workflows that move seamlessly from one tool to the next, showing you how to build a personal, flexible pipeline instead of relying on isolated prompts. Using a single AI-generated image as a starting point, we rewind the process: breaking it down, analyzing it, and reconstructing it step by step through an intensive, hands-on AI case study.
The AI-Native Architect
In this masterclass, you’ll learn the exact processes and workflows we’ve implemented for leading brands such as Dolce & Gabbana, ETRO, and others. More importantly, you’ll explore how AI is set to reshape the architecture and design industry in the years ahead. You’ll work hands-on with the most advanced AI models, integration systems, and platforms, tools that can dramatically free up your time, sharpen your creative edge, and strengthen your design thinking and problem-solving.
Dynamic Wearables for Fashion Design
This workshop is perfect for designers interested in developing their skills in parametric design at the body scale. Using Grasshopper allows us to design jewelry built specifically for additive manufacturing and to create the most intricate geometries, internal structures, and interlocking forms that are impossible to produce through conventional techniques, opening the door to a new generation of tech-enhanced body adornment.
ChatGPT for Architects
The workshop focuses on the main ChatGPT features and how to train and configure them to support recurring architectural tasks in a personalized way. Instead of approaching AI solely as image generation, the workshop prioritizes workflows that apply directly to professional practice and demonstrates, in real time, a replicable and customizable system that can be adapted to different typologies and project phases.
3D-Printed Wall Systems
This workshop focuses on the design of bespoke, production-ready interior wall systems. Participants will investigate how a simple 2D concept can be translated into a fully articulated 3D textured surface through algorithmic logic.
Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney
This Midjourney workshop emphasizes using the generative nature of AI to brainstorm ideas and produce surface, material, lighting, and atmospheric effects. Along the way, we will develop and craft prompts (the instructions we give to the AI model), adjust advanced parameters, and further customize the Midjourney platform as a way to sharpen your ideas and augment your design process.
🌟 Explore Recent Courses
Cinematic Architecture: AI-Powered Design WorkflowsIn this workshop, you'll learn prompting principles inside of MidJourney, the best AI tools and techniques for editing your ideas, and how to combine them into compelling presentation videos with AI. The revealed workflow can be easily applied to your existing projects, making your presentations more impactful. | Advanced Grasshopper 3.0: NURBS, Mesh & Volumetric Design SystemsThis workshop introduces a procedural design workflow in Grasshopper, exploring NURBS, mesh, and volumetric modeling through focused and hybrid exercises. Participants will learn how to strategically choose and combine computational methods and plugins to generate complex geometries that go beyond traditional parametric modeling. |
Algorithmic Urban Design in Grasshopper: Data-Driven Site Analysis & MassingThis workshop shows how to use Grasshopper for Rhino to analyze complex sites, sunlight, slope, vegetation, and visibility, and transform landscape data into diagrams and generative algorithms that guide optimal urban massing and design decisions. | AI-Driven Retail Architecture: From Animation to ConstructionThis workshop teaches architects and designers how to integrate the latest, most relevant AI tools into 3D retail workflows to design stores, supermarkets, product displays, pop-ups, and commercial stands. Body Architecture 4.0 |





