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Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney

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Topic: Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney
Date: April 25 – 26, 2026
Time: 14:00 – 18:00 GMT
Format: Online on Zoom
Duration: 2 Sessions (8 Hours)
Registration Deadline: April 24th, 2026
Total Seats: 50 seats
Difficulty: Beginner – Intermediate
Language: English
Certificate: Yes
General Registration: 100 EUR
Join free: with Full Access membership
Fee for Digital Members: 85 EUR (15% discount available only for Digital Members)
Organized By: PAACADEMY
Tutor: Joshua Vermillion
Recordings: Recordings will be available for all participants afterward indefinitely.

Introduction to Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney:

Text-to-image diffusion models are an accessible way for artists, architects, and designers to experiment with generative Artificial Intelligence. Midjourney is one such platform that engages our imaginations and lets us explore and test design ideas in a fraction of the time it would traditionally take to draw, model, or render.

This Midjourney workshop emphasizes using the generative nature of AI to brainstorm ideas and produce surface, material, lighting, and atmospheric effects. Along the way, we will develop and craft prompts (the instructions we give to the AI model), adjust advanced parameters, and further customize the Midjourney platform as a way to sharpen your ideas and augment your design process.

This workshop is about rapid iteration and prolific design explorations that are non-deterministic, as we give up some of our control to Midjourney and take advantage of this platform’s generative capacity as a virtual creative partner at our fingertips.

Methodology:

This fast-paced workshop will focus on generating images of provocative spatial volumes (interior or exterior), along with effects and atmospherics utilizing surface, lighting, textures, materials, shape, etc.

This workshop will focus on four main themes: Materials, Space, Form, and Time. At the conclusion of each theme, we will document and produce a small, selected storyboard or matrix of results. Based primarily in Midjourney, these brainstorming studies will be generative and non-determinative seeds for further study.

Part of the value of using a diffusion model like Midjourney is getting unexpected interpretations of your ideas, things you might have never thought of, and that extend and challenge your imagination.

This workshop will emphasize generating the non-deterministic and surprising outcomes that Midjourney generates so well, the happy accidents, the counter-intuitive, and the uncanny, all focused on four types of effects: material, spatial, formal, and time-based.

For each of these four themes, we will follow an Information > Demonstration > Application sequence to generate brainstorming documentation in the form of a matrix/grid/storyboard.

Key Learning Topics:

Text prompting for Midjourney
Image prompting for Midjourney
Customizing Midjourney with Mood boards and advanced parameters
Video generation in Midjourney
Outcomes include “storyboards” that describe your new AI-augmented workflows

Program:

Day 1:

Information: Writing prompts; Image prompting; Advanced parameters
Demonstration: Advanced Prompting for Image-making
Application: Workflows to Study Materials / Material Effects
Application: Workflows to Study Space / Spatial Effects

Day 2:

Information: Fine-tuning Midjourney with custom mood boards; Going from sketch to render; Omni References for Storyboarding
Demonstration: Fine-tuning image results
Application: Workflows to Study Form / Formal Vocabularies
Demonstration: Image to Video
Application: Workflows to Study Time / Videos

Software:

Midjourney
Manus AI

Workshop Notes:

Software Installation is NOT a part of the workshop! Students must have all the software installed before starting the workshop.

Instructor:

Joshua Vermillion

Joshua Vermillion is an award-winning designer, scholar, and educator who explores the use of machines to augment creativity, research, and teaching. He is a professor in the School of Architecture at UNLV, where he has co-edited two books and presented peer-reviewed creative research around the world.

His teaching and creative work span artificial intelligence and machine learning, computational and algorithmic design, digital fabrication, and robotics. This work has led to high-profile collaborations, including the first AI/photography hybrid fashion magazine cover and editorial for Harper’s BAZAAR. He has also partnered with companies and organizations such as Samsung, Microsoft, Jaguar Land Rover, ELLE Décor, Sony Music, and Architectural Digest, contributing creative work, research, and thought leadership.

Important Notes:

The “Generative Architectural Thinking with Midjourney” Studio workshop by PAACADEMY will start at 14:00 (GMT) on Saturday, April 25th, 2026.
Total sessions: 2 Sessions (8 Hours).
The teaching duration per session will be 8 hours.
Students will have time for a break between teaching hours.
The workshop will be recorded, and videos will be available for participants just a day after the class for an unlimited time.
PAACADEMY will provide a certificate of attendance.
The studio has limited seats. Tickets are non-transferable & non-refundable. Please read carefully before you register.