Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards are again! The worldwide awards program honors the world’s finest architectural ideas, concepts and imagery. Begin your entry at present, and make the most of the Important Entry costs!
As synthetic intelligence continues to reshape the inventive industries, Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards jury displays the design world’s most forward-thinking voices. This 12 months’s panel consists of pioneering architects, educators, researchers, and visible storytellers on the forefront of generative design. From fostering moral innovation in international follow to exploring the cultural implications of machine intelligence, every juror brings a singular perspective on how AI, computation, and creativity intersect.
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Collectively, they signify a paradigm shift in structure — one by which designers aren’t simply customers of recent applied sciences, however lively contributors in defining their goal. Their affect spans continents and disciplines, proving that the instruments of tomorrow can nonetheless be wielded with imaginative and prescient, intention, and humanity.
Niknaz Aftahi
Founding father of aecplustech
Niknaz Aftahi is the CEO and founding father of aec+tech, an all-in-one innovation platform and group that connects professionals in Structure, Engineering, Development, and Operations (AEC/O) with cutting-edge instruments and applied sciences. Earlier than launching aec+tech, Niknaz labored as each a design skilled and a design know-how director at structure corporations within the Bay Space, California.
Niknaz is captivated with advancing know-how and innovation within the AEC house and is a frequent speaker at nationwide and worldwide AEC-tech occasions. She serves on the AIA San Francisco Design Know-how Committee and is a member of the AIA’s first-ever AI Job Power, a nationwide initiative exploring how synthetic intelligence will form the way forward for structure and the constructed setting.
Along with her work in tech, Niknaz is dedicated to academic fairness. She has developed and taught on-line structure programs for Baháʼí college students in Iran, who proceed to be denied entry to greater schooling of their house nation.
Ismail Seleit
AI Influencer, Foster + Companions
Ismail Seleit is a design architect on the industry-leading Foster and Companions, specializing in design know-how. With in depth expertise in structure and computational design, Ismail has contributed to numerous tasks, starting from design competitions to the belief of buildings on numerous scales.
Actively supporting design groups, Ismail leverages his experience in BIM and Computational Design to navigate advanced challenges. His major focus is on enabling mission groups to attain environment friendly, knowledgeable, and collaborative design outcomes. Collaborating throughout departments, Ismail works to implement modern methodologies to handle the design course of from city planning to product scale.
Concurrently, Ismail engages in utilized analysis, exploring new alternatives for implementing cutting-edge design workflows. His analysis particularly focuses into the mixing of generative AI image-generating instruments, with a eager curiosity within the mixture of Steady Diffusion and ControlNet. This distinctive strategy affords numerous strategies for producing managed picture compositions primarily based on numerous user-defined inputs.
Past his architectural pursuits, Ismail is an ambient-electronic music producer, with a give attention to movie scores. He has composed and produced soundtracks for architectural brief movies and contributed to the music and sound design of assorted unbiased movies. Ismail’s ardour for inventive pondering, coupled together with his dedication to design problem-solving, continues to drive his multifaceted and modern endeavors.
Hamza Shaikh
Inventive AI Lead at Gensler
Hamza Shaikh is a inventive AI chief at Gensler, pioneering a human-first strategy to generative synthetic intelligence in design. With a multidisciplinary background as a digital artist, architect and revealed writer, he brings a confirmed observe file of driving inventive innovation at scale. His work focuses on integrating AI into the design course of and storytelling, making certain that rising applied sciences improve somewhat than change human creativity and design.
June Chow
Principal Architect and Founding father of JUN Architect
Licensed architect primarily based in Malaysia and AI specialist with experience in Generative AI for structure, city design, and conceptual visualization. Coach and advisor for architectural corporations and tutorial establishments on AI-driven design workflows. Speaker at native and international boards and workshops on AI in structure. Energetic on LinkedIn as one of many prime 100 AI Creators.
Andy Shaw
Architect and Managing Companion at AMA Design, Chair of RIBA Gulf Chapter
Andy Shaw RIBA is an architect primarily based in Dubai. Andy is captivated with how combining modern know-how reminiscent of AI and sustainable design can enhance the constructed setting for all residents. He’s the Managing Companion at AMA, a boutique design studio, designers of the landmark ‘Yacht Membership’ in Dubai Harbour, the Nobu Lodge and Residences in Abu Dhabi, and over 2000 properties for the Abu Dhabi Housing Authority. He’s at present engaged on giant city PIF tasks in Riyadh, KSA and new lodge resorts and housing communities within the UAE.
He’s the Chair of the RIBA Gulf Chapter, from 2019 until 2025, serving to to develop the design group and create occasions together with the regionally targeted Sustainability Collection, and led the workforce delivering the Sustainability – Previous, Current and Future exhibition in London and Dubai throughout COP28.
He has been utilizing AI know-how to additional the design course of within the studio, and has his AI generated work featured within the RIBA Journal and Constructing Design Journal. He has lectured about AI and metropolis design on the Large 5, numerous tech conferences and run panels and workshops in Design Week, INDEX and Every part Structure targeted on AI and the way forward for building {industry}.
He’s lively on-line and in follow selling structure for the advantage of all of the group of designers and residents. Comply with Andy on Instagram.
Hassan Ragab
Media Artist / Interdisciplinary designer / Architect at HSNRGB
Hassan is an interdisciplinary designer, architect and conceptual artist exploring the intersection of artwork, know-how, and humanity. His work delves into themes of identification, heritage, and the evolving position of creativity in a quickly altering world. Combining generative AI with conventional design processes, he challenges typical aesthetics whereas elevating questions concerning the societal and cultural implications of know-how. Pushed by a want to impress thought and encourage dialogue, Hassan’s follow focuses on utilizing innovation as a instrument to reimagine how we understand ourselves and the environments we create.
Social Media Handles (@hsnrgb) through Instagram, LinkedIn, X and Bluesky,
Marcelo Coehlo
Director of MIT Design Intelligence Lab
Marcelo Coelho is director of the MIT Design Intelligence Lab and college on the MIT Division of Structure. Spanning a variety of media, processes, and scales, his work explores how we embody and bodily work together with computation, creating new types of expression and collaboration between human and machine intelligence.
Marcelo’s work has been exhibited internationally, together with locations such because the Rio 2016 Paralympic Ceremonies, Instances Sq., The Corcoran Gallery of Artwork, Tel Aviv Museum of Artwork, and Ars Electronica, and could be present in museums, personal collections, and billions of merchandise bought everywhere in the world. Recognition for this work consists of two Prix Ars Electronica awards, Design Miami/ Designer of the Future Award, Pink Dot Design Award, and Quick Firm’s Innovation by Design Award.
Marcelo holds a doctorate diploma from the MIT Media Lab and can also be a Design Tech Innovation Fellow at Cornell College. He teaches graduate and undergraduate studios in industrial design, human-computer interplay, and synthetic intelligence.
Architizer’s Imaginative and prescient Awards are again! The worldwide awards program honors the world’s finest architectural ideas, concepts and imagery. Begin your entry at present, and make the most of the Important Entry costs!
