Digital Futures 2026: Entre o Prompt e a Obra

Architects already generate images with AI, but between the prompt and the built work there is still much to be done.

Trained as an architect at FAU-USP, I worked with computational design at Atelier Marko Brajovic, and there I learned to see architecture through the lens of biomimicry. In 2019 I migrated to Germany, where I completed my master’s degree at ITECH, with a thesis on robotic fabrication and engineered timber. I worked at the engineering office Alfred Rein with form finding of tensile structures, and at ArtEngineering, with computational engineering on works by Olafur Eliasson and Katharina Grosse. Today I am a researcher at Munich University of Applied Sciences, working at the intersection of software engineering, artificial intelligence, and digital timber fabrication.

My passage through ITECH, through two engineering offices, and through the immersion in the culture of Goethe taught me something different: thinking in systems. The image is just the last step; before it comes an entire system: structure, fabrication, logistics, materiality. In this talk, I share this journey and why systems thinking is the missing piece that will connect the prompt to the built work.