Architecture in Perspective
International Conference

Change is coming to the architectural visualization community at a fast pace. Often, no longer are architectural illustrations an image of how buildings will look once completed, like finished pieces of artwork. Increasingly, there has been a merging of the design process with iterative visualizations every step of the way for the designers, the clients, and the public to understand the proposed building or landscape. With AI, designers can unlock new imaginative ideas, previously never considered by the human mind. It is a new form of sketching, but with nearly instant rendered images. What are the possibilities and what are the limitations of the current image-based AI? These are some of the themes that we will discuss at the 2025 ASAI conference in Tokyo. We will also have specialists explaining how they create architectural illustrations using Grasshopper, VRay, Enscape, Forma, Sora, and Runway. Attendees are asked to bring their own laptop loaded with any of the above software.

Another theme that will be discussed at the conference is imagination and image making. An architectural illustrator can go beyond illustrating someone else`s designs. We are not just a “hand”, we are also a “mind”. As architectural illustrators we can not only imagine future worlds, but also to give them an image for others to understand and discuss. Let other specialists calculate numbers, politicians make speeches, we illustrators are in the unique position of giving form to our imagined future. Our illustrations can be used to generate discussion and give emotion to other people`s calculations and words. At our conference we will have speakers discuss how they imagine and create images of future worlds. Come and be inspired by their real time drawing right in front of you.

A third theme of ASAI 2025 is bringing art and style back to computer renderings. In the quest to achieve photorealistic architectural visualizations, have images become emotionless? Is there a market for architectural renderings that have a unique style which help create desire and extends the proposed building`s branding? Also, what do architects and decision makers look for in architectural illustrations for competitions?