In the year 2004, I was an architecture student at Tel Aviv University. Over the summer, I had the honor and pleasure to work with Architect Moshe Salomon and Vlad Barash on an International Ideas Competition organized by the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). Port-Louis is the Capital City of Mauritius and includes many administrative …
Competition of the Master plan of the City of Port-Louis, Mauritius Read More »
John Gero has been a professor of design science, architecture, artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive psychology, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering at Sydney University, MIT, CMU, Columbia, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, EPFL, and University of Provence, amongst others. He has published over 800 research articles and books. He is a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement …
John Gero: Design and Artificial Intelligence: Past, Present, and Future Read More »
I gave this lecture at the Technion’s Faculty of Architecture colloquium on the 31st of May, 2021. The topic of the lecture is how humans and artificial intelligence can collaborate in a design process. This video is of the lecture only. If you are interested in the full video that includes an introduction and Q&A, …
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Since I had founded Meirim with Eyal Migdalovich and Talia Margalit in 2017, it became an essential source for planning information. Every resident can learn and understand what is planned before the plan is approved, allowing them to actively act against bad plans. Meirim was selected as the most influential urban planning initiative by the …
Meirim featured on Ynet, Israel’s largest news website Read More »
After a wonderful semester, the Javascript for the Arts course concluded and I am thrilled to share the students’ work. The course was intended for Arts students, without prior knowledge of programming. Using the Javascript language and visualization libraries they learned the concepts of software and gained a new skill for artistic expression. Follow this …
This is a video of a presentation about this paper. Abstract: This paper provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like …
This paper provides an overview of “Architasker”, a large-scale crowdsourcing approach, platform, and method that enables a collaborative professional architectural design process in collaboration with a community of stakeholders. The platform includes communicating complex architectural project requirements; solution space exploration using different micro-tasks like sketching, 2D and 3D CAD; design selection; and design review as …
A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design Read More »
Located in Herzliya, a suburban city near Tel Aviv, a 40-year-old house was given new life.
I have presented “Meirim“, the open-source project I have co-founded with Eyal Migdalovich and Talia Margalit. Merim is a website that collects new plans (called Taba) from the Israeli planning authority and communicates them to the public. Over the presentation (in Hebrew) I explain the structure of the planning system in Israel, how permits are …
To cite this article: Jonathan Dortheimer & Talia Margalit (2020) Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge, and liability, The Journal of Architecture, 25:3, 276-294, DOI: 10.1080/13602365.2020.1758950 Abstract Inspired by open-source and crowdsourcing technologies, the concept of ‘open-source architecture’ has been increasingly used to describe collaborative architectural design (CoDesign) in recent years. In …