Brickworks is excited to welcome for the first time, British architect and author Neil Leach, hosted by Design Matters National.

Neil Leach will be joining us in person to speak on AI's impact on design professions.

Alien Intelligence: AI and the Future of Architecture & Building Design

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 rollercoaster 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 radically different form of intelligence-and alien intelligence-that will far exceed human intelligence and completely transform the discipline of architecture and building design.

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 educational platform that operates in 10 languages; a former researcher for NASA, where he developed 3-D printing technologies for the Moon and Mars; and a member of the Academia Europaea, Europe’s leading academy with over 50 Nobel laureates.

He has published over 40 books on architectural theory and digital design, translated into eight 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.

This event will be hosted by Danielle Johnston, CEO, Design Matters National, Australia's largest and fastest growing peak body for Building Designers and Energy Efficiency Assessors.

We look forward to welcoming you to Brickworks Design Studio Sydney for networking, an insightful lecture, and Q&A, shared with like-minded people over a light lunch.