PhD in Architecture and Building Science - 2021 - Tohoku University, Japan and ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Master of Architecture - 2015 - University of the Punjab

Bachelor of Architecture - 2012 - University of the Punjab (Gold Medalist)

Assistant Professor – Institute for Art and Culture, Lahore – September 2023 till Present
Assistant Professor – University of Management and Technology, Lahore – 2021-2023
Graduate Teaching Assistant – Tohoku University, Japan – 2017-2020
Visiting Instructor – Miyagi International Association, Japan – 2017-2018

27.9.2023

BIOGRAPHY
Danyal Ahmed is a Licensed Architect holding a PhD in Architecture and Building Science from Tohoku University, Japan, and ETH Zürich, Switzerland. He specialises in the history, theory and criticism of technologically advanced architecture with a focus on the role the emerging technologies, particularly, artificial intelligence, internet of things and big data had, is and will play with reference to architecture. He has presented his research at the platforms of the Architectural Institute of Japan, Architectural Society of China, Architectural Institute of Korea, Association of Pacific Rim Universities, European Association for Japanese Studies, University of Manchester (UK) and University of New South Wales (Australia). Being an AI researcher within the continents of Asia, Australia and Europe, he has been a recipient of grants and scholarships from prestigious governmental and higher education institutions such as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) – Government of Japan, Tohoku University (Japan) and University of Manchester (UK) – and holds internationally appreciated architectural designs, research papers and conference proceedings to his credits. Among his invited talks, “Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” (TEDx Tohoku University) and “CIBSE IBG: What is Artificial Intelligence when it comes to Architecture?” (Chartered Institute of Building Services Engineers, London) can be accessed online. He has published his book titled “A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949-1987” with Routledge, London and New York.

ARC-508: Thesis Design I
ARC-408: Research Methods
ARC-419: Landscape Design and Theory

Conference Proceedings and Presentations

Ahmed, Danyal. “Sendai Mediatheque – A Prototype of Artificially Intelligent Architecture.” In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Architectural Institute of Japan (Category: Information System Technology), 123-124. Nonoichi, Ishikawa: Architectural Institute of Japan, September 5, 2019. Available at: https://www.aij.or.jp/paper/detail.html?productId=634285

Ahmed, Danyal. “Artificial intelligence + contemporary architectural design = artificially intelligent architecture.” Paper presented at the 3rd Association of Asia Pacific Rim Universities: Sustainable Cities and Landscapes Hub Conference, University of New South Wales, Australia, August 29 – September 1, 2019.

Ahmed, Danyal. “Artificial intelligence – an invisible urban infrastructure: a structure-less, hierarchy less, architecture-less and location-less transdisciplinarity of 21st century Japan.” Paper presented at the Healthy Cities 2019: Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia Hallsworth Conference, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, May 1-3, 2019.

Ahmed, Danyal. “Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: A Review of the 21st Century Contemporary Japanese Architecture precedenting the Artificial Intelligence Architecture.” In Confluence of Architecture in the Age of Super Connectivity: Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia (ISAIA), 788-793. Pyeongchang, Gangwon: Architectural Institute of Japan, Architectural Society of China, and

Architectural Institute of Korea, October 23-26, 2018.

Publications

Book/s (Authored)

Ahmed, Danyal. A History of Artificially Intelligent Architecture: Case Studies from the USA, UK, Europe and Japan, 1949 – 1987. New York, London: Routledge, 2023. Available at: https://www.routledge.com/A-History-of-Artificially-Intelligent-Architecture-Case-Studies-from-the/Ahmed/p/book/9781032504049. (Pre-Orders stage, Date of release: October 23, 2023)

Academic Papers (Peer-reviewed manuscripts in-print)

Ahmed, Danyal and Junichiro Higaya. “Information, Communication, Feedback: The Festival Plaza (Japan World Exposition Osaka 1970), Center Pompidou and Sendai Mediatheque as Suggestive Examples of Artificially Intelligent Architecture.” Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering 21, no. 3 (2022): 701-716.

https://doi.org/10.1080/13467581.2021.1883621

Ahmed, Danyal. “Senses, experiences, emotions, memories: artificial intelligence as a design instead of for a design in contemporary Japan.” Intelligent Buildings International 14, no. 2 (2022): 133-150. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2020.1764327

Ahmed, Danyal and Junichiro Higaya. “Figuring-out the characteristics of artificially intelligent architecture by re-visiting the cybernetic projects of Kenzo Tange and Arata Isozaki from 1959 – 1972.” Journal of Architecture and Planning (Transactions of Architectural Institute of Japan (AIJ)) 86, no. 787 (2021): 2358-2367.

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/aija/86/787/86_2358/_article/-char/en

Ahmed, Danyal. “Anthropomorphizing artificial intelligence: towards a user-centered approach for addressing the challenges of over-automation and design understandability in smart homes.” Intelligent Buildings International 13, no. 4 (2021): 227-240. https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2020.1795612

Ahmed, Danyal. “Artificial intelligence and contemporary Japanese architecture – any relationship?” Intelligent Buildings International 12, no. 4 (2020): 295-308.

https://doi.org/10.1080/17508975.2019.1577212

Ahmed, Danyal. “Analysis of the Social Fabric of Haveli Nau Nihal Singh, the Walled City of Lahore, Pakistan.” Journal of Urban Design (Tsinghua University, Beijing) 05, no. 007 (2016): 46-55. http://urbanism.com.cn/EN/abstract/abstract149524.shtml

Invited Academic Talks

Ahmed, Danyal. “CIBSE IBG: What is Artificial Intelligence when it comes to Architecture?” YouTube Video, 51:44, September 22, 2022, The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers (CIBSE), Intelligent Buildings Group (IBG), London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrElMWIKJEc

Ahmed, Danyal. “Architecture in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.” YouTube Video, 09:31, December 20, 2019, TEDx Tohoku University, Sendai.

Ahmed, Danyal. “Breaking the Wall of Artificial Intelligence in Architecture.” Presentation, Falling Walls Lab Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, August 31, 2018

1. Emerging Young Architect award for the selection of architectural design at the 12th International Symposium on Architectural Interchanges in Asia (ISAIA), Pyeongchang, Gangwon: Architectural Institute of Japan, Architectural Society of China, and Architectural Institute of Korea, October 23-26, 2018.

2. University Gold Medal for graduating with the highest cumulative grade point average in the B.Arch. program from the Department of Architecture, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, 2013.

3. Award in memory of Pakistani Architect Mehdi Ali Mirza by the Institute of Architects Pakistan for achieving highest cumulative grade point average in the B.Arch. program from the Department of Architecture, University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan, 2013.