​Please note: This event begins at 4pm

​About

​The spatial computing era is starting. This is not limited to the metaverse, and this is not focused on an escape from the real.

​This is an extension into digital spatial environments, with a grounding in the physical spatial world, for countless purposes, including entertainment, but focussed also on health, work, education, design, enterprise, and the spatial dynamics in all dimensions of human activity.

Apple, Nvidia, Epic Games, are now more than joining Meta in unpacking this potential at global scale - they are leading and innovating in different ways. The opportunities - and risks - have only just begun to be explored. This is a new era of the information age.

This conversation summarizes and looks forward from the previous three conversations in this special series, exploring the technical, creative and commercial dynamics of this new age from the perspective of architectural design.

What are the major implications for how spaces of all sorts are designed? Will digital and physical space be united somehow, remain fundamentally separate, or merely inform each other's evolution? Who leads creatively, who wins commercially, and who must adapt? Where does government, ethics, education, and the broader humanities fit in? And AI?

Architecture has always been at the centre of human progress dialogues - and never more so at this time of spatial computation revolution.

Featuring the world leaders in architectural technology and design, this event will summarize the themes and insights of the Treasury Sessions on 'A New Architecture' and present a challenging agenda for the technology and design professions and spatial computation practitioners, and for the creatives, regulators, business people, educators, students and innovators that are joining this revolution.

This conversation is the fourth in an ongoing special series of Treasury Sessions, featuring world leaders in architectural design and digital design practice, exploring the creative, technical, social and psychological dimensions of architectural practice and this epochal moment in the evolution of spatial design practices, and offering pathways forward for practitioners and theorists.

​At this event, Treasury spatial asset platform will be presented for early use by spatial asset creators and spatial experience builders, and initial partners will be announced.

​The Session begins with a preliminary conversation on the state of spatial design tools, between Greg Demchak, Shajay Bhooshan and John Manoochehri.

After this event, opportunity to attend advanced, private seminars in the Treasury Sessions series will be announced, along with other opportunities around the Treasury Network for creatives, students, design and technology professionals.

Everyone working in or studying architecture, urban design, product and other design disciplines, spatial computing, metaverse development, game, art, and technology in general, is welcome to join in, learn, and participate.

These events are over-subscribed, so please register early.

​Tickets will be released in batches so if a batch is sold out, please come back to this page to register when a new batch opens up.

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​The event is generously hosted and sponsored by Bentley Systems.

​Speakers

​Patrik Schumacher

​Partner/Director, Zaha Hadid Architects

​Patrik Schumacher is a principal at Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA), joining in 1988. He studied in Bonn, Stuttgart, and London and became a ZHA partner in 2003. Schumacher co-founded the Design Research Laboratory in London and has taught globally, including at Harvard. He won the 2010 Stirling Prize with Zaha Hadid and is affiliated with the Berlin Academy of Arts. Holding a PhD from Klagenfurt University, he's authored over 120 articles and books. Schumacher is a leading advocate for Parametricism in architecture and emphasizes the blend of digital and physical design.

​Martha Tsigkari

​Senior Partner, Head of Applied R&D, Foster + Partners

​Martha Tsigkari is a Senior Partner and Head of the Applied R+D (ARD) group at Foster + Partners. Her background spans architecture, engineering, and computer science. She has two decades of experience working in projects of all scales and uses. Her work incorporates computational design, human-computer interaction, machine learning, and optimisation. She has investigated the usage of deep neural networks and genetic algorithms in the design process, aiming to solve problems ranging from passively actuated micromaterials to performance-driven urban layouts. She is also an Associate Professor at the Bartlett, UCL and has lectured and published on the subject of computational design internationally.

​Oliver Thomas

​CEO & Co-Founder, Archi-Tech Network, Previously Design Technology Manager, Bjarke Ingels Group

​Oliver Thomas is a British Architect with experience working on a variety of projects around the world. After graduating from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Liverpool Oliver went onto work in London, Hong Kong and New York for world-renowned firms such as FACIT Homes, Aedas, Front and BIG. Oliver works as a BIM & Computational specialist at BIG and is responsible for the implementation of advanced workflows on a range of projects within the office. He also oversees the testing and integration of new and emerging technologies that add to the unique design process at BIG.

​Shajay Bhooshan

​Co-founder of CODE, ZHA's computational design research group

​Shajay is an Associate Director at Zaha Hadid Architects where he co-founded and heads the Computation and Design research group (ZHACODE, 2007).He is an alumnus and a studio-master at the post-graduate course of Design Research Laboratory at the Architectural Association, London (AADRL, 2006). There he explores the intersection of video game technology, urban development and industrialized construction.Shajay pursued his scientific interests in digital design and robotic fabrication during his Doctoral studies at the Block Research Group (BRG, 2022) at the ETH, Zurich and previously as a M.Phil. graduate from University of Bath (2016).

​Greg Demchak

​VP, Emerging Technologies Group, Bentley Systems

​Greg Demchak is a software designer, entrepreneur, and technology evangelist with a focus on human-computer interactions with 3D/4D digital information models of the built world. He worked extensively on the design of Revit (BIM), Synchro (4D Planning), and iTwin for Unreal Engine (Industrial Metaverse) and is currently running the Digital Innovation Lab (iLab) at Bentley Systems.

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​John Manoochehri

​CEO & Founder, Treasury

​Founder & CEO, Treasury, John Manoochehri is an architect and environmental scientist, with a specialization in computational design. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Oxford, a diploma in architecture from the Royal College of Art in Stockholm, and has taught architecture, urban design planning studios and courses at the Royal Institute of Technology Architecture School in Stockholm. He previously founded an architectural design technology company, Last Meter®, focussing on designing and adapting modern residences and commercial buildings to integrate third-party services, and founded a podcast on spatial technology, Futureperfect, sponsored by Epic Games.

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​Agenda:

​3:30 pm - Doors Open

​4pm-4:50 – John Manoochehri, Shajay Bhooshan, Greg Demchak and others informally discuss the state of the art of tools for spatial computing - sensing/measuring/mapping, reality capture, design, rendering, visualization, fabrication, management and more. Input from the audience welcome!

​4:50pm-5pm - Break

​5pm - Introduction to Treasury

​5:10pm – A New Architecture IV

​6:40pm – Q&A with Audience

​7pm – Event closes, drinks on Level 26 of 8 Bishopsgate

​Hosted By:

​​Treasury

​Treasury is a registry and discovery system for the world’s most valuable spatial assets - architectural design, film scenes and sets, real estate, world monuments, experiential art, nature scans, and other spatial content.

​Treasury is co-founded with Zaha Hadid architects, Spaceform (backed by Bjarke Ingels Group, Thomas Heatherwick and UNStudio), and more - and financed in part by Google’s AI investment fund, Gradient.

​Treasury protects and distributes the work of spatial creators - architects, real estate owners, artists, engineers, and reality capture professionals - in the era of spatial computing and generative AI.

​Builders of digital environments and spatial computing applications are invited to request a private discovery engine here: treasury.space/builder.

​Creators of spatial assets are invited to archive and fingerprint their work here: treasury.space/creator.

​Anyone with a passion for spatial design and spatial computing can become an advocate for their favorite creators and experiences, and be rewarded for doing so, here: treasury.space/activator.

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