FIERAMILANO AND POLITECNICO DI MILANO AWARD EXHIBITORS OF MADE Expo 2025 FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
DISCOVER HOW TO APPLY
FIERAMILANO AND POLITECNICO DI MILANO AWARD EXHIBITORS OF MADE Expo 2025 FOR THEIR COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE
DISCOVER HOW TO APPLY
Artificial intelligence has once again pushed humanity to question its limits and ambitions: AI's capabilities have exploded into the mainstream of architectural imagination and are shaping the future of the built environment.
On November 20 in Milan, MADE Expo 2025 presents the event “AI Architectural Intelligence”: a meeting with innovation gurus to give voice to the new growth path of the construction world. Thanks to drones, generative design, predictive maintenance, supply chain implementation, and sustainability, the global AI market in construction is ready to take off!
The Inspirational Talk “AI Architectural Intelligence” proposes a dialogue between the Italian community of engineers and architects and international experts in the field, with the aim of illustrating realized projects as well as the most extreme digital explorations based on artificial intelligence.
Practical applications, a complex of new tools and software, have demonstrated the great potential of AI, but also a spectacularization that dazzles and unsettles, simultaneously tracing unexpected routes in the building sector.
How is AI rewriting the rules of architectural design? What opportunities does it offer to improve the way we conceive and build the spaces of the future? What is the role of the uniqueness of genius and designers, artists, and architects in a world that is being transformed daily by artificial intelligence?
To answer these and many other questions, the 2025 edition of MADE Expo organizes “AI Architectural Intelligence”: an unmissable event to learn about the latest trends, tools, and AI technologies that are revolutionizing the way architecture is done, a unique opportunity to explore the fascinating intersection between technology and creativity.
AI Architectural Intelligence. Inspirational Talk
Artificial Intelligence in Architecture: from dialogue to experimentation
20 November, Milan
9:30 Participant Registration
10:00 Welcome greeting from MADE EXPO
10:05 The biggest questions around AI in Architecture: introduced and moderated by Luca Sassi, Architect and Content Creator
LECTURE
10:15 Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: conversation with Neal Leach, Architect and University Professor
"We are about to face a radically different form of intelligence - an 'alien intelligence' - that will far surpass human intelligence and completely transform the discipline of architecture!" N.L.
11:00 Q&A
USE CASE SESSION
11:15 Artificial Intelligence case-studies: completed projects and future applications
The Made Expo stage will host some of the world's most prestigious architectural studios. Together with them, we will discover what AI is and how it works, the real experiments of artificial intelligence and the impact it will have on the building professions!
12:00 Close of proceedings
Luca Sassi, Architect and content creator. Luca Sassi has worked in ateliers and architectural studios in Lisbon, Portugal and Delft, Holland. He is currently a member of Studio LSA in Reggio Emilia, collaborates with the DASTU (Department of Architecture and Urban Studies) of the Politecnico di Milano and consults for professional bodies, associations and companies.
In 2020, he launched the YouTube channel "ArchiSax", a very successful experiment in digital communication, where he researches and tells stories about architecture from all over the world, proposing an innovative vision of architecture and communication in a completely original language.
As time has passed, Sassi has consolidated his activity as a content creator, also expanding to other platforms such as Instagram and TikTok, creating a community that today counts more than twenty thousand members.
Neil Leach, British architect, university lecturer, considered a guru in the field of artificial intelligence in architecture.
He runs the PhD programme in Design at FIU in Florida and has also taught at AA, Harvard, Columbia University, Cornell University, IaaC and SCI-Arc.
Leach's research interests stem from the Italian Renaissance. His first publication, produced under the supervision of Joseph Rykwert, was a translation from Latin of De re aedificatoria, the 15th-century treatise on architecture by the Italian humanist Leon Battista Alberti.
He later turned to contemporary architectural theory, exploring the potential impact of continental philosophy on architectural thought. His work then evolved in the direction of new computational and scientific thinking. This has influenced his curatorial activities and his design teaching, which deals extensively with scripting and digital fabrication.
Neil Leach was a NASA researcher on projects to explore the potential use of Contour Crafting robotic fabrication technology for building structures on the Moon and Mars. He directed the American Academy in China for several years and was co-curator of avant-garde architecture exhibitions at the Beijing Architecture Biennale from 2004 to 2015. He currently works in the field of architecture and artificial intelligence, is co-founder of Digital FUTURES and has published more than 50 books, the most recent of which, published in May 2025, “Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: An Introduction to AI for Architects".
