Study Architecture 
ProPEL SCHEDULE: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2025
Below is the schedule for Saturday, September 27, 2025, featuring session descriptions. You can read the research abstracts by clicking HERE. The conference schedule is subject to change.
Continuing Education Credits
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) when applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit session attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES).
ABSTRACT BOOK
9:00am-10:00am
Roundtable
Moderator: George Guida, Harvard University
Panelists:
Cas Esbach, Savannah College of Art and Design
Kristen Forward, Design Technology Futures
Martha Tsigkari, Foster + Partners
Description:
Roundtable conversations bringing together leading scholars and designers to engage and highlight key figures and critical topics in Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning design practices. The second roundtable will focus on AI Practices & Methods. What currently and may continue to distinguish human creativity from Machine Learning?
10:00am-10:30am
10:30am-12:00pm
Research Sessions
Light Projections
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Christopher Romano, University at Buffalo, SUNY
A Framework for a Qualitative and Quantitative AI Tool for Automated Floorplan Generation
Ahmed Meselhyl James R. Jones, Amal Almalkawi & Rayane Alhajj,
Virginia Tech
A Generative-AI Workflow for Daylighting Optimization in Schematic Design
Bahereh Vojdani, Deok-Oh Woo & Andressa Martinez,
University of Maryland
Transcending AI Representation, A Performance-Driven Integration of AI in Architectural Design Processes
Shermeen Yousif, University of Texas at Arlington
Toward Human-Building Collaboration: Leveraging AI to Design Interactive, Adaptive, and Resilient Environments
Constantina Varsami & Diyanko Bhowmik, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Daniel Rosenberg, Carnegie Mellon University
Alexandros Tsamis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
New Foundations
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Eliyahu Keller, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Wonder, Resistance, and the In-Between
Nesrine Mansour, The University of Colorado Boulder
AI as a Third Party: Introducing Language, Authorship, and Code in Foundation Design Education
Jessica Hernandez & Edgar Garcia Carrasco, Virginia Tech
Shape Computation: A Foundation for AI-Embedded Architectural Education
Heather Ligler, Florida Atlantic University
From Prompt to Pavilion: AI Tools for Enhancing Design-Build Workflows in Early Design Education
Samuel Maddox, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Warp-Speed Studios: How AI Integration Influences Design-Feedback Speed in Accredited Architecture Programs
Stuti Bhardwa & Tian Ouyang,
Gensler
System Workflows
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Daniel Tish,
Harvard University
Evaluating LLM-based Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Enhanced Knowledge Management in the AEC field Domain
Jun Wang, Tian Ouyang, Yushan Li & Xiye Mou,
University of Pennsylvania
The Architect as Orchestrator: A Co-Creative AI Workflow for Conceptual Design through Multi-Prompt Systems
Jiong Wu, Ruaa Alzahrani & Meng Hsieh,
Syracuse University
Embodied Creativity: Assessing Artificial Intelligence, Human, and Human-AI Collaboration in Virtual Reality
Hoa Vo, Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
Recl[ai]ming Design: Automatic Design and the Design Process
Summer Rayess, University of Detroit Mercy
12:00pm-2:00pm
Lunch (on your own)
2:00pm-3:30pm
Research Sessions
Curricular Machinations
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: George Guida,
Harvard University
AI Hybrids and Mutants: Eight Years of Experimenting with AI in Studio
Daniel Horowitz, University of Hartford
From Generation to Judgment: Balancing Automation and Human Judgment in Architectural Design Education
Sora Key, Texas A&M University
Reflective Practice Rewired: AI-Driven Ideation in Studio Contexts
Seth Cutlip & Pedro Veloso,
University of Arkansas
Getting Comfortable: AI, Reflexive Praxis, and Future Climates
Anda French, Princeton University
From Studio to Solver: A Comparative Study of Human and Generative AI Design
Howard Mack, Morgan State University
Cognitive Systems & Speculative Narratives
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Shermeen Yousif University of Texas at Arlington
The Hallucinating Alien: Deanthropomorphizing AI for a Post-Artificial Future
Vahid Vahdat Zad, Washington State University
Constructing Urban Narratives through Generative AI and Game Engines
Lee Su Huang, Masataka Yoshikawa & Sara Codarin,
Lawrence Technological University
Training Architectural Intelligence: Towards an Agent-Based Model of Discursive Pedagogy
Jason Lee, Pratt Institute
The Architecture of Inference: Cognitive Systems and the Posthuman Creative Act
Sandra Manninger & Matias del Campo,
New York Institute of Technology
Environmental Intensities
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Ignacio Cardona, Wentworth Institute of Technology
Comparative evaluation of GPT5 and Gemini for Sustainability-Oriented Design Critique in Conceptual Architecture
Md Shariful Alam, Chi Aoyama, Sean Baxter, Kerry Garikes & Koushik Srinath,
Mithun
Integrating AI and VR in Interdisciplinary Pedagogy for Sustainable Ecotourism Infrastructure
A Myat & Patricia Kio,
University of Florida
Circular Intelligence: AI-Augmented Evaluation of Biobased Materials for Sustainable Construction
Mohamed Aly Etman, University at Buffalo, SUNY
4:00pm-5:30pm
Research Sessions
Locating Biases
1.5 AIA/CES HSW
Moderator: Cas Esbach,
Savannah College of Art and Design
Unboxed City: Critical Explorations of [Ai] and Cities
Alberto Meouchi, Sarah Williams & Rohit Sanatani,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masked Depth: AI-Induced Ambiguities in Spatial Perception
Se Won Roy Kim, Ball State University
Brutalist Dreams: An Augmented AI Tool for Custom Architectural Design Processes in Research, Teaching, & Practice
Benjamin Ennemoser, Texas A&M University
The Misrecognition Index: Predictive Design and Vernacular Invisibility on the Southern Coast
Stacy Scott, University of Virginia
Poster Exhibition Session
1.5 AIA/CES LU
Moderator: Rob Trumbour,
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Twisted Arch: Towards AI-Assisted Analytics for Ultra-Lightweight, Carbon Reducing Concrete
Christopher Romano, Randy Fernando & Michael Hoover,
University at Buffalo, SUNY
From Asimov to AI: Five Student Laws of Technology
Edward Orlowski, Lawrence Technological University
Playing ISO
Kelly Rice, Mickhyle Dangalan & Alvaro Sanche,
Florida Atlantic University
Rethinking Precedent in Design: AI as a Pedagogical Tool
Isabel Potworowski & Henry Levesque,
University of Cincinnati
M. Alan Frost, Judson University
Drawing From Violette Le Duc: Embodied Metaphors of Scarred Subjectivity and AI’s Algorithmic Intuition
Edgardo Perez-Maldonado, Judson University
Ecoblox: AI + Wave Testing for Modular Tiles
Sara Pezeshk, Florida International University
An Exploration of AI-Assisted Critiques in Art and Design Courses
Hira Roberts & William Price,
Prairie View A&M University
Automating MEP Design: A Two-Stage Agent-Based AI Approach Using BIM Data
Ioannis Kopsacheilis, National Technical University of Athens
Pattern-Form Finding with Artificial Intelligence and Parametric Design Tools
Darion Washington, Kean University
From Studio to Solver: Visualizing Design Outcomes from Human and Generative AI Housing Approaches
Howard Mack, Morgan State University
Quantum Poems: Superimposition, Installation And Adaptation Inside Revolutionary Drawings
Michael Erik Gamble, Georgia Institute of Technology
5:30pm-6:00pm
Break
6:00pm-7:00pm
Plenary
Kent Larson is the Director of the City Science Center at the MIT Media Lab. His research focuses on developing urban interventions that enable more entrepreneurial, livable, high-performance districts in cities. To that end, his projects include advanced simulation and augmented reality for urban design, transformable micro-housing for millennials, mobility-on-demand systems that create alternatives to private automobiles, and Urban Living Lab deployments in Hamburg, Andorra, Guadalajara, Taipei, and Boston.
Larson and researchers from his group received the “10-Year Impact Award” from UbiComp 2014. This is a “test of time” award for work that, with the benefit of hindsight, has had the greatest impact over the previous decade.
Larson practiced architecture for 15 years in New York City, with design work published in Architectural Record, Progressive Architecture, Global Architecture, The New York Times, A+U, and Architectural Digest. The New York Times Review of Books selected his book, Louis I. Kahn: Unbuilt Masterworks (2000) as one of that year’s ten best books in architecture.
7:00pm
CLOSING RECEPTION
We invite you to join us to enjoin a closing reception with your fellow conference attendees.
Continuing Education Credits
Obtain Continuing Education Credits (CES) / Learning Units (LU), including Health, Safety and Welfare (HSW) when applicable. Registered conference attendees will be able to submit session attended for Continuing Education Credits (CES). Register for the conference today to gain access to all the AIA/CES credit sessions.
Conference Partners
Michelle Sturges
ACSA
Conferences Manager
202-785-2324
msturges@acsa-arch.org
Eric Wayne Ellis
ACSA
Sr. Dir. of Operations & Programs
202-785-2324
eellis@acsa-arch.org
