„Casting Roles, Performing Intelligences: Architectural Design & AI“: Vortrag von Doktorand Adil Bokhari

Der Jour Fixe der Fachgruppe Architektur der ABK Stuttgart geht in eine neue Runde! Unter dem Titel „Digital“ lotet die Gesprächsreihe mittels dreier Vorträge aktuelle Positionen zu Digitalität in der Architektur aus, besonders im Hinblick auf die Veränderungen durch KI, Robotik und Mixed Reality. Die internationalen Vortragenden berichten aus ihrer Praxis, Forschung und Lehre zu Themen, Methoden und digitalen Produkten. Im Fokus stehen sowohl ein experimenteller Umgang mit digitalen Formaten in der Architektur, welche gewohnte Praxen herausfordern und radikal verändern, als auch ein kritischer Blick auf Zugang und Verhältnismäßigkeit digitaler Anwendungen vor dem Hintergrund der sozialen und ökologischen Krisen unserer Zeit.

Adil Bokhari, Doktorand an der ETH Zürich, ist mit seinem Vortrag „Casting Roles, Performing Intelligences: Architectural Design & AI“ zu Gast:

The fertile, electric grounds of the digitally connected world offer unprecedented access to architectural knowledge: styles, techniques, constructions, and spatial logics from across history now exist as readily manipulable data. Classical orders, vernacular patterns, parametric systems, and AI-based generations circulate freely within our networks, catalogued and embedded in the training datasets of the large models that have proliferated throughout our lives. The lecture examines how to navigate this flood of possibilities, not through optimizing existing processes but by developing conceptual frameworks that reposition the architect within these information-rich yet noise-saturated conditions. It explores ways of working across a plethora of intelligences, where instruments, algorithms, and operations become friends, partners, and colleagues. Rather than treating these technologies as pure novelties, the lecture connects them to the spiraling histories of architecture and considers how those lineages might be updated in parallel, opening a space for imaging and imagining architecture in the multiple presents of artificial intelligence.

Adil Bokhari is a researcher, practitioner, and tutor focusing on the crossovers between computational vision, automata, and architectural rendering through the lens of cosmotechnics. He investigates how contemporary technologies relate to and unfold global histories of the art of painting, the physics of light, and the mechanics of intelligent instruments. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Chair for Digital Architectonics at ETH Zürich and leads the architecture design studio of the chair: Studio Meteora alongside Miro Roman. He is the co-founder and co-organizer of Playing Models, an international platform that investigates the intersections of architecture, artificial intelligence, and storytelling through yearly symposia. Adil previously served as guest professor at the Peter Behrens School of Arts in Düsseldorf (HSD) and has taught visual studies and design studios at various institutions including the Städelschule Architecture Class, Dessau Institute of Architecture, and the National College of Arts. His professional experience spans several practices, including Najmi Bilgrami Collaborative in Karachi, Zvi Hecker Architect in Berlin, and Atelier Manferdini in Los Angeles.

Weitere Termine:

Dienstag, 18.11.2025, 18:30 Uhr
Dr. Paula Strunden (Bauhaus Uni Weimar): „Modelling the Unseen—The Future of Spatial Experiences in Extended Reality“

Dienstag, 25.11.2025, 18:30 Uhr
Dr. Petrus Aejmelaeus-Lindström (ETH Zürich): „Coding architecture and talking with robots“

Der Jour Fixe findet im Wintersemester 2025/26 im Rahmen des Architekturnovember Baden-Württemberg des BDA Baden-Württemberg statt.