Dr Milad Showkatbakhsh is the Studio Master of Emergent Technologies and Design Postgraduate Programme (EmTech) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. Milad has conducted his PhD at the AA under Dr Michael Weinstock’s directorship as well. His doctoral thesis titled “Homeostatic Urban Morphologies: An Evolutionary Model to Generate Urban Tissues with Embedded Homeostatic Behaviours” investigated the application of biological principles of intelligence in generating forms and behaviours at the scale of urban tissues. Milad holds BSc. in Architectural Engineering from Shahid Beheshti University and M.Arch. from Pratt Institute, where he graduated with Sidney Katz award for design excellence in 2015. He has worked for several architecture and design firms in Asia, U.S.A and Europe as a design technology specialist, such as Contemporary Architecture Practice (CAP), Led by Ali Rahim and Hina Jamelle. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences such as the International Journal of Architectural Computing, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering and Computer-Aided Design and Applications journal. He is the co-Programme Head of the AA Istanbul visiting school and AA DLAB with the research focus on the integration of algorithmic design methods with large-scale digital fabrication tools. He is the co-founder of ‘Wallacei’, an evolutionary and analytic engine with embedded machine learning algorithms that gives users full control over their evolutionary simulations in Grasshopper 3D. Milad’s research interest is the application of biological principles of intelligence in architecture and urban design through computational processes.
