This article investigates the ability of AI to generate plausible design options by recombining features extracted from just 40 dataset samples of shell and tensile structures, and how the trained model can communicate with the designer through existing CAD software.

Our new article: "Expertise, playfulness and analogical reasoning: three strategies to train Artificial Intelligence for design applications" has been published in “Architecture, Structures and Construction”.

Our new article: "An Artificial Intelligence Agent That Synthesises Visual Abstractions of Natural Forms to Support the Design of Human-Made Habitat Structures" has been published in “Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution”.

On 21 August 2021, I was interviewed by Federico Solchi on SBS Italian Radio. Click on this link to visit the SBS Italian Website or play the video below to listen to the interview.

This DigitalFUTURES talk brings together a group of world-leading architecture and engineering scholars who are experts on computational structural design methods.

Sofia Colabella, Alessandro Liuti and I completed a 3-day workshop on “Mixed Reality”, directed by Fologramand NExT Lab at the Melbourne School of Design (MSD).

The International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures (IASS) is currently celebrating Frei Otto with a Special Issue of the IASS Journal (Vol.59, No.1, March 2018).

On 31 October 2016, I was interviewed by Rosemarie Milsom on 1233 ABC Newcastle. Here you can listen to the radio interview or read the transcript below.

I participated in a 1-day seminar, which was held at Politecnico di Bari on 11 January 2016. It was kindly organised by a friend and colleague, Giuseppe Fallacara.