I am used to having total control over my 3D models. Why should I embrace a 'non-deterministic' tool like Midjourney?

Instead of spending hours modeling a single, rigid idea, you will learn to use Midjourney as a "virtual creative partner, you'll discover "happy accidents" and uncanny interpretations that push your imagination far beyond your initial concepts.

Can I guide the AI using my own project inspirations, or is it strictly text-based prompting?

You will definitely use your own visual inputs. While the workshop covers advanced text prompting, it places heavy emphasis on Image Prompting. You will learn how to fine-tune Midjourney using your custom mood boards and transition seamlessly from your initial hand sketches to polished renders.

What tangible materials will I have produced by the end of this fast-paced workshop?

The curriculum is structured around four core themes: Materials, Space, Form, and Time. For each theme, you will document your rapid brainstorming studies into curated "storyboards" or matrices, giving you a tangible, reusable framework for your new AI-augmented workflows.

Is this workshop strictly limited to generating static architectural images?

Not at all. While the first day focuses heavily on materials and spatial effects, the second day introduces the dimension of "Time." You will learn how to utilize Midjourney's video generation capabilities, allowing you to study time-based effects and add dynamic motion to your design presentations.

'm looking for a course that balances theory with actual hands-on practice. What is the teaching format?

The workshop is designed for immediate application. Led by award-winning designer and professor Joshua Vermillion, every session follows a strict "Information > Demonstration > Application" sequence. This means you will immediately apply the advanced parameters and workflows you just watched to your own rapid iterations.

Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney

Name: Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney
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About Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney

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.

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...

What you will 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

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

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...

Course Content

11 Lessons

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Midjourney

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Instructors

Joshua Vermillion

5 Courses5.0

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.

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Maria Mahmoud

Awesome!

Apr 28, 2026