AIA UK - AI and the Future of Architecture with Neil Leach
Images courtesy of Neil Leach
Join us for a special in-person talk on AI, followed by drinks and networking, hosted at longtime AIA UK sponsor Herman Miller's new showroom!
When: Monday 18 November 2024, 18:30
Where: MillerKnoll London, The Sans, 20 St John's Square, London EC1M 4AH
CES Credits: Estimated 1.5 LUs for AIA Members
Speaker
Neil Leach, Co-founder of DigitalFUTURES
Description
Everyone is talking about AI these days. But what exactly is AI? How did it evolve? And what potential does it have to influence the future? This lecture takes you on a roller coaster ride looking at the extraordinary – but often somewhat terrifying – potential of what is arguably the most significant invention of humankind. The lecture concludes that we are about to face a radically different form of intelligence – an ‘alien intelligence’ – that will far exceed human intelligence, and completely transform the discipline of architecture.
Speaker Bio
Neil Leach is an architect and professor from the UK. He currently directs the Doctor of Design program at Florida International University, and has also taught at the Architectural Association, Harvard GSD, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell, IaaC and Sci-Arc. He is the co-founder of DigitalFUTURES, an online education platform that operates in 10 languages; a former researcher for NASA, where he developed 3D printing technologies for the Moon and Mars; and a member of the Academia Europea, Europe’s leading academy with over 50 Nobel laureates. He has published over forty books on architectural theory and digital design, translated into 8 different languages and is the translator (under Joseph Rykwert) of Leon Battista Alberti, on the Art of Building in Ten Books (MIT Press 1988). He is currently working on artificial intelligence. His most recent books include Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence; An Introduction to AI for Architects (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Machine Hallucinations: Architecture and AI.
Tickets
£5 - AIA Members
£10 - Non Members
Places are strictly limited. Sign up today!
This event is made possible with the support of Herman Miller. Please consider them for your next project. Further information at: https://www.hermanmiller.com/en_gb/.