Date: 2 November 2023 (Thursday)
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm (HK time)
Venue: Learning Lab, RRS321, 3/F, Run Run Shaw Building, Main Campus, HKU
Speaker: Mr. Christian J. Lange, Associate Professor (Teaching), Faculty of Architecture, HKU
Facilitator: Dr. Tris Kee, Senior Lecturer, TALIC, HKU

In the past years, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged at light speed as a powerful new tool. In spring 2022, extraordinary visual representations in mind-blowing photorealism began to occur via social media. Images generated with applications, such as midjourney, Dall-E, or Stable Diffusion, flooded the News Feeds on Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat. Never before has it become so easy to create visual ideas and representations so fast and convincing.
Architecture is a profession that works and communicates with ideas via drawings, images, and models. AI is seen by many as a disruption to the profession. This talk will discuss current tendencies, promises, and possibilities of AI in Architecture.

Mr. Christian J. Lange is a registered German architect and Associate Professor (Teaching) in the Department of Architecture at The University of Hong Kong, where he teaches architectural design and classes in advanced digital modeling and robotic fabrication with a recent focus on AI. He serves as Director of the Fabrication and Material Technologies Lab and is the founder and leader of the Robotic Fabrication Lab – an internationally renowned research environment for architectural robotic fabrication, prototyping, and construction. His work and research have been published internationally and featured in over 30 exhibits worldwide, including the Venice Biennale and the Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture.