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A[|]rchitectural Minds [A|M] is a speculative research and design lab where various intelligences co-design and envision the built environment for the future.

We explore the intersections between architecture, engineering, computation, art, and natural environment and generating new ideas and expose new connections that can be “found in translation”.

In the experimental design works, A|M merges commissioned work with scientific discovery and artistic thinking by applying new technologies in unprecedented ways.

PRESS RELEASE AND COLLABORATIONS on Specter[al]s of Nature: Beyond the surface

>> Science-Art-Society, JRC, European Commission

>> Austrian Cultural Forum Brussels

>> IMAL – Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology

>> transforming data into art

PRESS RELEASE AND COLLABORATIONS:

>> Compos[t]ing featured at Science-Art-Society, JRC, European Commission

>> Compos[t]ing featured at IMAL – Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology

>> xeno-tékton featured at university of Innsbruck

>> xeno-tékton in collaboration with art-in-public space tirol

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Architecture, Futuralbility and the Untimely: On the Unpredictability of The Past, Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2022

“Von Wohnen zu Lebensräumen: Künstliche Intelligenz als Impulsgeber für eine radikale Neuinterpretation des Zusammenlebens” in Zeitschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik (LiLi), Special Issue „Wohnen“, (ed.) Alena Heinritz, Dorothee Birke, Christoph Singer, Springer Nature

“This is not a Building: Architecting the Spectrality of the Latent Space” in Artificial Intelligence in Architecture AD (Architectural Design), Vol. 94, Issue 3, London: Wiley&Sons, p.78-85

“Convoluted City: the latent space as tangible matter” Proceedings: Habits of the Anthropocene, The Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) 2023, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

From Linear to Manifold Interpolation: Exemplifying the paradigm shift through interpolation. Digital Design Reconsidered – Volume 1: Proceedings of the 41st eCAADe conference, 18-23 September 2023, Graz University of Technology, Austria

Design across multi-scale datasets by developing a novel approach to 3DGANs. IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing, Vol. 21/2, 2023

Advancing justice in a city’s complex systems using designs enabled by space. IJAC International Journal of Architectural Computing, Vol. 21/2, 2023

Paul Klee’s Pedagogy and Computational Processing, in Bauhaus Effects in Art, Architecture and Design, ed. Kathleen James-Chakraborty, Sabine Kriebel, Routledge, New York, 2022

Anastrophic Architecture: How to Operationalize Architecture to Design Time. In archiDOCT, 18 Temporalities (10 (2)), 2022.

Untimely Present(s). The Beginning of the Past or the End of the Future. | Presente(s) extemporáneo(s). El comienzo del pasado o el fin del futuro. In Hipo-tesis: Presentes futuribles, futuros presentables/Futurable presents, Presentable Futures. No. 5, 2017, pp. 4-13.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

“Spectr[al]s” atFestival della Meraviglia, Comune di Laveno Mombello (VA) Italy

“Spectr[al]s” at Future Days 2025: Towards Symbiotic Futures, Estufa Fria – Garden Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

Series of AI-driven Projects exhibited at Taiwan Design Week, curated by Taiwan Design Research Institute, Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, and Taiwan Design Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

“xeno-tekton” Art in Public Space Tyrol, curated by Künstler:innen Vereinigung Tirol, Kunstpavillion & Neue Galerie, Innsbruck

“Geoscope”. Semmelweisklinik, Center for Arts and Culture, Vienna

“Spectr[al]s of Nature”. European Green Week 2024: Towards a water resilient Europe, curated by Marina Furtado, Directorate-General. For Environment (DG ENV A.2), European Commission, Charlemagne building, Brussels, Belgium

“Spectr[al]s of Nature”. NatureArchy: Towards a New Contract, curated by JRC, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium.

“Compos[t]ing” NaturArchy and the Natural Contract, curated by JRC NatureArchy: Towards a New Contract, curated by JRC, iMAL, Brussels, Belgium in collaboration with artist Ingrid Ogenstedt

“Coalescence: We don’t live where we are.” Resilienze Festival, curated by Kilowatt, Bologna, Italy

RECENT TALKS AND LECTURES

2025

“AI ⊂ IA: Machines and Intelligent Artifacts” School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

“artist talk” ENSCi Les Ateliers, Paris

2024

„On the ‘Sustainability’ of the city through (urban) form”, POLIS University, Tirana, Albania

LASER Talk, “Soil Science and Arts” 4^th EU Soil Observatory Stakeholder Forum, Ispra, Italy

“AI:IA – Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Artifacts”. i.sd – institute for structure and design, University of Innsbruck

“Von Wohn- zu Lebensräumen”, Narratives of Home and Dwelling: Cultures, Crisis, Utopia. International Conference of the Research Center ‚Cultures in Contact’ (KiK), Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Innsbruck

2023

“Convoluted City: The latent space as tangible matter”, ACADIA 2023, University of Colorado, Denver, USA

„AIrchitecture and Distant Reading”, POLIS University, Tirana, Albania

„From Linear to Manifold Interpolation: Exemplifying the paradigm shift through interpolation”, Conference: 41st Education and Research in Computer Aided Architectural Design in Europe (eCAADe), Technical University, Graz

“La cittá neutral e I suoi abitanti.” Resilienze Festival Bologna, Italy

artist talk, Joint Research Center (JRC) of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy

“Versi-pellis [versiˈpɛlːis]: Searching Earth for Alien Habitable Environments” , subnetTALK, Center for Human Computer Interaction, Salzburg, Austria

“Spatial Hybrids” Collage of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, USA

“Deep Image: /reimagine” School of Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

2022

“On Research in Architecture”, Forschungstage 2022, futurelab, Technical University Vienna.

“Architectural Space in the Mind of the Machine”, Hani Rashid Studio, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

“Generating Spatial Hybrids with 3DGANs”, ACADIA 2022, UPENN Weitzman School – University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania, USA

“A short history of AI in Architecture”, Digital Futures, online

Who we’ve worked with.

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Do you have a project or a challenge? Or a media inquiry? Do you wish to join the multidisciplinary team? We look forward to hearing from you.