Monday, 22.06.2026, 15:15 live @ i.sd Foyer

Architectural Machine Intelligence

The talk explores the principles and implications of the new computational paradigm entering the architectural discipline, namely, AI enabled by Multimodal Large Language Models. It aims to inspire practitioners, researchers, and students to shape and contribute to architecturally specific machine intelligence, addressing the challenges of open-ended design and decision-making processes.

Anton Savov is an architect, researcher, and educator at ETH Zurich, bridging AI and architecture to expand what architects can do: explore more boldly, collaborate more openly, and carry more complexity without losing clarity. He is Deputy Executive Director of Design++ and a postdoctoral researcher at the Chair of Digital Building Technologies, where he works on architectural machine intelligence and fabrication-aware generative design to connect computational exploration with architectural intent, buildability, and delivery. During his Ph.D. at TU Darmstadt, he created a Minecraft-based co-creation platform combining procedural generation, game mechanics, and crowd wisdom. His work draws on experience from collaborations with artists, computer scientists, and civil engineers, as well as teaching and exhibiting internationally.