Design-Tech Talk 12

Step into the future of architecture and design with Design-Tech Talk 12, a two-day online event exploring the ideas, technologies, and innovations shaping the next generation of creative practice.

Bringing together leading architects, designers, and innovators from around the world, the event highlights a diverse range of perspectives at the intersection of design and technology. Through engaging presentations and discussions, attendees will discover emerging tools, evolving workflows, and forward-thinking approaches that are transforming architecture and the broader design industry.

Whether you are an architect, designer, student, researcher, or technology enthusiast, Design-Tech Talk 12 offers an opportunity to gain fresh insights, expand your perspective, and connect with a global community passionate about the future of design.

Guest Speakers:

Vlad Tenu

Vlad Tenu is a Romanian-British architect, designer and artist based in London. His practice explores the intersection of architecture, research and making, investigating how computational design, natural systems and digital fabrication can generate new spatial possibilities. Moving fluidly between buildings, installations, public art, sculpture, modular systems and wearable art, his work reveals connections between geometry, materiality and fabrication across multiple scales. With 20 years of architectural experience, Vlad is currently an Associate at Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM).

A graduate of The Bartlett UCL, where he also taught Architectural Computation, he has developed an internationally recognized body of work, receiving awards including the TEX-FAB Repeat Competition and AIA Houston Design Award.

His projects have been exhibited at leading design platforms and institutions, including London, Milan and Shenzhen Design Weeks, the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and Swarovski Crystal Worlds, with collaborations featuring Swarovski and Björk.

Kostas Grigoriadis

Professor Kostas Grigoriadis is an ARB-registered architect and academic. His work explores the spatial and theoretical implications of using multi-materials in architecture, as well as the new paradigm of spatial and material continuity they enable. His practice, Continuum, provides building design services and has completed the construction of a tourist center in Anhui, China, for Cozoo Ltd. Continuum previously won the Spiretec competition for the design and construction of the 62,000-square-meter World Trade Center Noida in Delhi, India.

Kostas studied Architecture at UCL, followed by a Master's in Architecture and Urbanism at the Architectural Association’s Design Research Laboratory. He has worked for Foster + Partners and Populous in London and held a Visiting Lectureship at the Royal College of Art, where he also completed a PhD in Architecture by Project, focusing on multi-material design methodologies. He taught a design studio at the Architectural Association from 2010 to 2023.

He is currently Professor of Multi-Material Architecture and Co-Director of Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2) at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, and Associate Editor of Architecture Intelligence (Springer). He is the co-author of 3D Printing and Material Extrusion in Architecture, and the editor of Mixed Matters: A Multi-Material Design Compendium, published by Jovis Verlag in June 2016.

His awards include the Ivan Petrovic Prize (eCAADe 2014), the Arup Prize for Emerging Talent in Architecture—Special Mention (Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, 2016), the RIBA President’s Award for Design and Technical Research (2018), and the Google R+D in the Built Environment Fellowship (2019).