Prof. Carlos Bañón from Singapore University of Technololy and Desing is invited to give a lecture titled More Artificial, More Human: New Spaces for Architectural Creativity with AI. The lecture is taking place on 18 November 2025 at Väre, Q201, at 9:15 and everyone is welcome to join.
Abstract: The talk introduces the opportunities opened by Artificial Intelligence in architecture, expanding design, creativity, and control throughout the project process. It presents methods to integrate AI in the early stages of ideation and conceptual development, where visual and geometric experimentation play a decisive role. Rather than replacing the architect, AI acts as an amplifier of design thinking, able to generate, evaluate, and iteratively refine outcomes, while keeping critical judgment at the centre. The aim is to expand creative potential and offer new tools to think, represent, and materialize architecture from its first intuitions. The session will present work developed in Formas.AI, a platform created by the author for architects that combines multimodal models, LLMs, and interactive tools to articulate ideas from sketch to real-world context. More than automating, it seeks to amplify intuition and preserve authorship, opening new spaces for creation, experimentation, and control within the architectural process.
Carlos Bañón is an Associate Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Design at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), where he directs AirLab, a laboratory focused on integrating Artificial Intelligence, computational thinking, and digital fabrication into architecture. His work has received the Singapore President’s Design Award, the country’s highest distinction, and has been exhibited at multiple editions of the Venice Architecture Biennale. He is co-founder of Subarquitectura and the author of pioneering projects in geometry, sustainability, and generative design technologies. He the co-author of “3D Printing Architecture: Workflows, Applications, and Trends”, and has been a visiting professor at MIT, EPFL, and the AA, and is currently leading Formas.AI, a platform dedicated to the research and practice of multimodal artificial intelligence in architecture.