People · Podcast guest
Keir Regan-Alexander
Director · 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
- On the podcast
- 1 episode · 2024
The story so far
The path behind Keir's 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.
Episode 0196 · Architecture Social · 47:53
Algorithms & Aesthetics: Using Generative Design and AI tools to design Architecture, ft. Arka Works
Generative design and AI tools are already changing how architecture professionals test ideas, produce options and think about workflows.
Inside the conversation
6 moments to start with- 01
00:00 · Introduction to AI and generative design
- 02
05:00 · Where AI can add to the design process
- 03
10:00 · Sharing tools, workflows and public learning
- 04
15:00 · Design ego, authorship and how architects think
- 05
20:00 · Automated planning tools and residential layouts
- 06
25:00 · Platforms, Autodesk Forma and connecting specialist tools
Profile in brief
The work and context behind Keir's conversation.
- Current role
- Director
- Practice
- Arka Works
- Location
- London, UK
Continue exploring
Meet the practice behind the work.
Arka Works is a London creative consultancy applying generative design and AI to architecture, helping practices and developers adopt these tools well.
- Greater London
- Science & Technology
- Advanced Technologies
Podcast · moments that play
Start where the idea starts.
- 05:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 05:00 in the full episode.
Where AI can add to the design process
- 10:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 10:00 in the full episode.
Sharing tools, workflows and public learning
- 15:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 15:00 in the full episode.
Design ego, authorship and how architects think
- 20:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 20:00 in the full episode.
Automated planning tools and residential layouts
- 25:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 25:00 in the full episode.
Platforms, Autodesk Forma and connecting specialist tools
- 30:00Keir Regan-Alexander · Audio onlyListen from 30:00 in the full episode.
What is really AI and what is useful automation