Milad Showkatbakhsh, Co-Founder of Wallacei, Ph.D. from the Architectural Association, and Studio Master of Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] Postgraduate Program at AA, will be teaching a 90-minute tutorial using different computational design tools at the upcoming conference Computational Design: NEXT 11. Milad Showkatbakhsh obtained his BSc. in Architectural Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University. Then he completed his M.Arch. from Pratt Institute, where he graduated with the Sidney Katz award for design excellence in 2015. Also, he holds a Ph.D. from the Architectural Association School of Architecture titled “Homeostatic Urban Morphologies: an Evolutionary Model to Generate Urban Morphologies with Embedded Homeostatic Behaviours.” Dr. Milad Showkatbakhsh is the Studio Master of Emergent Technologies and Design [EmTech] Postgraduate Programme at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA). He also co-directs AA Istanbul Visiting School and AA Dlab, focusing on integrating algorithmic design methods with large-scale digital fabrication tools. Milad’s research interest is the application of biological principles of intelligence in architecture and urban design through rigorous computational processes. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. He co-founded ‘Wallacei’, an evolutionary and analytic engine with embedded machine learning algorithms that give users full control over their evolutionary simulations in Grasshopper 3D.
