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Synthetic Architecture, Urban Design, Augmented Reality, AI & 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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This Weekend! RunDiffusion: End-to-End AI Visuals for Architecture

Learn end-to-end visualization workflows for architecture in RunDiffusion. In this free live event, you will build mood boards from references, iterate materials, form and tone, make precise image edits, and turn hero stills into short motion for client narratives.

Parametric Brickscapes: Grasshopper, Augmented Reality & AI

Parametric Brickscapes is a two-day intensive workshop for beginners that bridges parametric design, augmented reality, and AI visualization into a single creative workflow. Participants will gain an understanding of parametric and geometric logic in Grasshopper, enabling them to design a fully parametric brick wall and translate code-based geometry into physical form through AR-guided assembly with Jenga blocks.

AI & Parametric Negotiation 2.0

This session advances the collaboration between generative AI and parametric design. Building on Part 1, participants transform Grasshopper-generated video patterns into site-informed spatial designs, developing a co-evolving human–AI process from abstraction to architectural realization.

▶️ Getting Started with AI? Our YouTube Guides Are Live!

ComfyUI Desktop App Installation Guide

Whether 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 & ControlNet

Learn how to turn Rhino3D models into AI-driven conceptual renders using ComfyUI, SDXL, and ControlNet.

Free Event! Design-Tech Talk 8.0

Step into the future of design innovation with Design-Tech Talk 8.0, a two-day online event bringing together the world’s leading thinkers and creators at the crossroads of architecture, technology, and digital design.

Fibrous Architecture: Robotic Fabrication & AI Rendering

The workshop will be a loop between design and fabrication revolving around emerging morphologies of fibrous trajectories. The Workshop will delve into creating a workflow from design to digital fabrication for architectural-scale installation of an aggregated fibrous structure using a six-axis KUKA robotic arm. For projects where accessibility to a robotic arm would not be possible, a low-tech system for a manual wound strategy will be implemented.

AI-Driven Retail Architecture & 3D Visualization

This 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. Participants will learn the fundamentals of professional retail design in 3D, how to generate AI-based assets for commercial environments, and how to apply cutting-edge AI techniques for conceptualization, post-production, and animation in retail architecture.

Algorithmic Urban Design in Grasshopper: Data-Driven Site Analysis & Massing

This 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.

New! Synthetic Architecture: AI-Powered Adaptive Workflows

This workshop introduces Synthetic Architecture Methodology, showing how architects can use AI, imperfection, and modular thinking to manage complexity and move from theory to simulation, storytelling, and clear visual outcomes.

New! Cinematic Architecture: AI-Powered Design Workflows

In 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.

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AI-Powered Design Ideation: Midjourney, mnml & Nano Banana

This workshop will explore cutting-edge tools – Midjourney for generating stunning visuals from simple text, Nano Banana for magically editing images with a few words, and harnessing the power of Stable Diffusion in a visual node-based workflow.

Reverse Modeling: AI-Inspired Architecture

This hands-on workshop guides participants through a workflow that starts with AI-generated imagery using MidJourney, moves into Rhino SubD modeling, and culminates in Krea visualization.

SubD Intelligence: Architectural Modeling & AI Rendering

This intensive two-day workshop dives into the power of SubD modeling in Rhino, real-time visualization with Enscape, and the integration of AI tools to enhance architectural workflows.

Body Architecture 4.0

The workshop will provide participants with both technical and methodological foundations to apply computational design for projects in the fashion, sportswear, and medical industries.