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Archi-Tech Network Archi-Tech Network is a collective of practicing architects sharing knowledge around the intersection of Architecture, Technology and Entrepreneurship.

Technology we use as architects to design as well as how technology influencing design.

21/08/2026

Data can be found in seconds, but it cannot tell you how a material feels.

A brand new episode of the ArchiTech Tours is now live on YouTube. We visited Material Bank’s Stuttgart office with Hannes Bauerle and spent time exploring one of the most impressive material libraries we have come across. The thinking behind how samples are curated and distributed to architects and interior designers around the world is genuinely considered, making the process faster, more efficient and more sustainable without losing the physical quality that matters most in design decisions.

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18/08/2026

“We have a vast heritage of technologies and ideas tested over centuries that we should not forget.”

An insightful perspective from Shajay Bhooshan at ZHA Architects on balancing AI adoption with architectural tradition, and why a bottom up, collaborative design methodology has always been the foundation that makes experimenting with new tools possible in the first place.
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17/08/2026

Shajay Bhooshan from ZHA Architects at the ATN Summit on how the practice is combining the creative, linguistic capabilities of generative AI with deterministic parametric design to bring ideas to life. Using tools like Midjourney to communicate spatial concepts to non-architects early in the process, then handing off to field tested, collaborative workflows across engineers, designers and contractors to deliver them.

Two different modes of thinking, working together.

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Behind the scenes of a different Archi-Tech Tour and a very interesting one over in Stuttgart!We spent time at Material ...
15/08/2026

Behind the scenes of a different Archi-Tech Tour and a very interesting one over in Stuttgart!

We spent time at Material Bank’s Stuttgart office with Hannes Bauerle exploring one of the most impressive material libraries we have come across. The kind of place where architects walk in and immediately start touching the walls. Genuinely fascinating to see the thinking behind how samples are curated, distributed and made more accessible to practices around the world.

A really enjoyable visit and one well worth watching in full.

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14/08/2026

The one thing AI still cannot do, or can it?

A brand new episode of the ArchiTech Office Tours [ep 24] is now live on YouTube. We visited Material Bank’s Stuttgart office with Hannes Bauerle and got a fascinating look at how they are rethinking the way architects and interior designers access material samples. A streamlined, more sustainable process that saves time without sacrificing the thing that matters most, actually feeling the material in your hand.

Because as digital as the design process gets, the physical quality of a real sample is still something a render cannot replace. AI can help with colour combinations and detail decisions, but when it comes to the final call, you still need the real thing .europe

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10/08/2026

It is not a technology problem. It is a knowledge problem.

Michael Drobnik from H&dM at the ATN Summit on why the focus for architects over the next five years should be less about which tools to adopt and more about how practices work with the knowledge they already hold. Tacit knowledge, uncodified experience, the expertise that walks out the door when people leave. AI as a way to access and augment that, not replace it.
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09/08/2026

To move forward, you first have to unlearn.

Michael Drobnik from Herzog & de Meuron at the ATN Summit on why self criticism is not a weakness but a strategy. In times of change, the risk is not in trying something new. It is in staying attached to how you have always adapted. Learn, unlearn, relearn. A cycle that requires a different kind of thinking than what got us here.

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08/08/2026

Space efficiency on the International Space Station is poor. Mostly tubes connected by corridors.

Xavier De Kestelier from Hassell laid out a different approach at the ArchiTech Tour. A cave-like shell structure for radiation protection, with inflatable pods underneath built around a modular rack system that works across every function, labs, living spaces, greenhouses and workshops. One system, every space.

A practical critique of how we currently think about designing for space.

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03/08/2026

“Every single party in the chain needs to understand the original intention, message, values and principles you were instilling in that project.”

Harlen Miller, digital innovations co-lead at UNStudio, with an insightful perspective at the ATN Summit on design coherency, long term delivery, and why the way you document a project is just as important as how you design it.
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02/08/2026

20 years. One render. One building, and a digital message in a bottle that kept it all together.

Harlen from UNStudio at the ATN Summit walked through a project that stopped at the 44th floor in March 2020, with cranes standing still for almost two years. What kept the project alive through thousands of team changes and partners walking away was embedded geometry in every file sent, every vertex point and line needed to recreate the project from scratch. March 2023 it restarted. Summer 2025 it topped out at 300 metres.

20 years between the first render and the final build. That is what good documentation actually looks like.

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