Artificial Intelligence in Architecture (AI+A) 3: Dreaming With AI

By bringing people together within the Architecture, Engineering, Construction, and Operations (AECO) industry and experts from AI-related fields, the ‘AI Salon’ series hopes to foster productive discussion and explore solutions for leveraging AI technology in AECO by bridging the gap between practice and academic research. This four-part series aims to create archives and, ultimately, publications / whitepapers from these salon sessions to share with the broader public and help push the industry into wider technology adoption. The third session will be focused on how we are Dreaming With AI and what AI can offer design creativity.

As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, its potential to reshape the built environment calls for more than just technical adaptation—it demands a reawakening of architectural imagination. Dreaming With AI invites architects, designers, and artists to boldly speculate on how AI might expand our creative horizons and shape the future of architectural practice. Through engaging architects, theorists, and experts in design computation, this salon seeks to spark a collective act of dreaming: How might we design with intelligent systems, not just through them? What new paradigms of authorship, aesthetics, and ethics might emerge? Join us as we explore AI not just as a tool, but as a collaborator in imagining the cities, spaces, and societies of tomorrow.

Speakers:
Sebastian Marino, Chief Technology Officer, Monumental Labs
Andrew Witt, Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Snoweria Zhang, AIA, Google

About the Speakers:
Sebastian Marino is one of the world’s experts in volumetric capture, having founded several companies that made key advances in 3D video and augmented reality. Before that, he worked as a computer graphics engineer at major movie graphics studios, where he won an Academy Award for developing the cloth, skin, and hair simulation systems for Avatar.

Andrew Witt is an Associate Professor in Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, teaching and researching on the relationship of geometry and machines to perception, design, assembly, and culture. He is also co-founder, with Tobias Nolte, of Certain Measures, a design and technology studio that prototypes the future. Trained in both architecture and mathematics, Witt has a particular interest in a technically synthetic and logically rigorous approach to form.

Snoweria Zhang, AIA is a designer, artist, and mathematician. She currently works on Google Earth. Previously, she has worked at Sidewalk Labs, Kohn Pedersen Fox’s Urban Interface team, and the MIT Senseable City Lab. Her work spans architecture, urbanism, computation, and technology. Zhang has written about the intersection of data and urban issues, and her design was recently featured on the cover of Nature.