Sam Conrad Joyce is an Associate Professor, with a joint appointment in Architecture and Sustainable Design pillar acting as coordinator for PhD programme as well as Design and Artificial Intelligence as studio leader for the Spatial AI Studio.
He heads up the Meta Design Lab a research group which focuses on the productive intersection between the city, creative design, and computation: Seeking new insights, interfaces, and collaborative models for human and machines to work together for the betterment of architecture and master planning. Specifically exploring the way that generative design, big data, analytics, and machine learning can augment existing human design processes though data visualisation, predictions, generative-AI, decision support, and web based feedback.
Prior to this he was an Associate at Foster + Partners, in the Applied Research and Development group leading structural integration and contributing to a range of projects including Mexico City New Airport, Apple Campus, Bloomberg Headquarters, and UAE Expo Pavilion Milan. And before this he held a role as Design Systems Analyst at Buro Happold working on geometrical, structural and master-planning projects, such as Louvré Abu Dhabi and both the London and Sochi Olympic Stadiums. Working with Autodesk developing the programming language Design Script for parametric design in Revit.
His doctoral work focused on applied design computation for integrated architectural and engineering in professional practice, deploying develop data rich systems for effective design space exploration and executive decision making. To enable this, his work synthesised and applied new techniques in distributed and scalable computing, multi-objective optimization, big data analytics, artificial intelligence and web based visualisation.
He has taught internationally including technical studies in the Architectural Association, London, and Design Programming at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. Holding workshops and collaborations widely including the Singapore Pavilion Venice Biennale, Smart Geometry at the University of Toronto, Kyoto University of Technology and Inujima Island with Sejima architects SANAA, and Geidai University Tokyo with Ryuji Fujimura Architects.
