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Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney

Name: Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney
Price: 85.00 EUR

This workshop uses Midjourney as a generative design partner to rapidly explore architectural ideas, atmospheres, and spatial concepts.

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50 Seats

Apr 25, 26, 2026

14:00 - 18:00 GMT

Saturday - Sunday

Lessons in Progress

Beginner

8 Hours

Certificate — Learn

English

Unlimited Access

€100.00

€85.00

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Introduction of the workshop:

Text-to-image diffusion models are an accessible way for artists, architects, and designers to experiment with generative Artificial Intelligence. Midjourney is one such platform that engages our imaginations and lets us explore and test design ideas in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take to draw, model, or render.

This Midjourney workshop emphasizes using the generative nature of AI to brainstorm ideas and produce surface, material, lighting, and atmospheric effects. Along the way, we will develop and craft prompts (the instructions we give to the AI model), adjust advanced parameters, and further customize the Midjourney platform as a way to sharpen your ideas and augment your design process.

This workshop is about rapid iteration and prolific design explorations that are non-deterministic, as we give up some of our control to Midjourney and take advantage of this platform’s generative capacity as a virtual creative partner at our fingertips.

What You’ll Learn?

Text prompting for Midjourney

Image prompting for Midjourney

Customizing Midjourney with Mood boards and advanced parameters

Video generation in Midjourney

Outcomes include “storyboards” that describe your new AI-augmented workflows

Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney

Methodology:

This fast-paced workshop will focus on generating images of provocative spatial volumes (interior or exterior), along with effects and atmospherics utilizing surface, lighting, textures, materials, shape, etc.

This workshop will focus on four main themes: Materials, Space, Form, and Time. At the conclusion of each theme, we will document and produce a small, selected storyboard or matrix of results. Based primarily in Midjourney, these brainstorming studies will be generative and non-determinative seeds for further study.

Part of the value of using a diffusion model like Midjourney is getting unexpected interpretations of your ideas, things you might have never thought of, and that extend and challenge your imagination.

This workshop will emphasize generating the non-deterministic and surprising outcomes that Midjourney generates so well, the happy accidents, the counter-intuitive, and the uncanny, all focused on four types of effects: material, spatial, formal, and time-based.

For each of these four themes, we will follow an Information > Demonstration > Application sequence to generate brainstorming documentation in the form of a matrix/grid/storyboard.

Program:

Day 1

Information: Writing prompts; Image prompting; Advanced parameters
Demonstration: Advanced Prompting for Image-making
Application: Workflows to Study Materials / Material Effects
Application: Workflows to Study Space / Spatial Effects

Day 2

Information: Fine-tuning Midjourney with custom mood boards; Going from sketch to render; Omni References for Storyboarding
Demonstration: Fine-tuning image results
Application: Workflows to Study Form / Formal Vocabularies
Demonstration: Image to Video
Application: Workflows to Study Time / Videos

What You’ll Use?

Midjourney

Manus AI

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Instructors:

Joshua Vermillion

Biography

Joshua Vermillion is an award-winning designer, scholar, and educator who explores the use of machines to augment creativity, research, and teaching. He is a professor in the School of Architecture at UNLV, where he has co-edited two books and presented peer-reviewed creative research around the world. His teaching and creative work span artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational and algorithmic design, digital fabrication, and robotics. This work has led to high-profile collaborations, including the first AI/photography hybrid fashion magazine cover and editorial for Harper’s BAZAAR. He has also partnered with companies and organizations such as Samsung, Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover, ELLE Décor, Sony Music, and Architectural Digest, contributing creative work, research, and thought leadership.