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Keir Regan-Alexander
Algorithms & Aesthetics: Using Generative Design and AI tools to design Architecture, ft. Arka Works
Keir Regan-Alexander, architect and founder of Arka Works, on adopting generative design and AI tools well in architectural practice.

- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Arka Works
- Location
- London, UK
Conversation
The thinking behind the work.
Episode 0196 · Architecture Social
Algorithms & Aesthetics: Using Generative Design and AI tools to design Architecture, ft. Arka Works
Get ready for a dive into a world where architectural practice creatively collides with the realms of Generative Design and AI!

Explore episode moments
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- 05:00 · Where AI can add to the design process · Audio only
- 10:00 · Sharing tools, workflows and public learning · Audio only
- 15:00 · Design ego, authorship and how architects think · Audio only
- 20:00 · Automated planning tools and residential layouts · Audio only
- 25:00 · Platforms, Autodesk Forma and connecting specialist tools · Audio only
- 30:00 · What is really AI and what is useful automation · Audio only
About
The story so far.
The person behind the work.
Keir Regan-Alexander is an architect and the founder of Arka Works, a London creative consultancy applying generative design and AI tools to the built environment. He describes himself as an AEC domain expert working with one foot in professional practice and one in live software development.
Before founding Arka Works, Keir spent around a decade at Morris+Company in London, latterly as a director, working on offices, large housing schemes, health centres and education buildings. He has also held roles at Feilden Fowles and Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
Through Arka Works he runs transformation planning and workshops for practices, applied research and development, and UX advisory for software teams, including the carbon-prediction start-up Preoptima. He is co-founder of OmniChat.uk, an enterprise-grade multi-model LLM platform, and founder of Omni Accelerator, a learning platform for teams adopting AI.
In this conversation he sets out a practical, grounded view of how architects can adopt AI well: knowing which tools are genuinely useful, treating design as more than prompting for an image, and preparing the profession to lead the change rather than be subjected to it.
Watch or listen to the full conversation in the Architecture Social CPD: Algorithms & Aesthetics: Using Generative Design & AI in Architecture.
The practice
Arka Works
Arka Works is a London creative consultancy applying generative design and AI to architecture, helping practices and developers adopt these tools well.
Architecture practice · Greater London
Expertise
What I bring.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Arka Works
- Location
- London, UK
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2024
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