Have architecture and urbanism always been intelligent?

Paradigms and Prototypes

Speaker
Tom Verebes, PhD

National Foreign Expert Individual Project (Class S), 2025-2026
Professor, School of Architecture and Design,New York Institute of Technology
Director, OCEAN CN

Abstract

Architecture and urbanism reveal changing conceptions of intelligence through paradigmatic practices, design methodologies, and prototypes. The lecture traces developments from historical precedents and early computational theories to contemporary artificial intelligence. Drawing on Verebes' recent publications, design methods, and a survey of built projects, it examines key concepts and considers how successive paradigms reshape design practice, human agency, and the production of knowledge.

Time
2026.11.02 Monday
18:30-20:00

Venue
Bell Hall, CAUP Building B

Project Lead: Philip F. YUAN
Project Coordinator: Jiayan FU
Course Lead: Xiaochao CHEN