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Tim Fu

Founder and director of Studio Tim Fu, a London-based AI-native architecture practice and former Zaha Hadid Architects computational designer.

Sep 11, 2026

11:36
So what do you think about this? Like, is this something really good that could happen for architecture that we would have been dreaming about? Or should we be really a bit scared about it or somehow be cautious on moving forward with it?
Tim FuGUEST
11:56
Yeah, so Astra was released, I think around Friday last week.
Tim FuGUEST
12:03
Our entire weekend was preoccupied thinking about these questions.
Tim FuGUEST
12:09
Our labs team were scrambling, working even overtime to really reintegrate these new advancements into our model as soon as possible.
Tim FuGUEST
12:20
Because as you said, it is going to disrupt the current industry as it is.
Tim FuGUEST
12:27
This is absolutely hands down the biggest revolution that we've seen in the advancement of AI towards the AEC industry.
Tim FuGUEST
12:36
What we see now is tools that can be prompted and directly controlling the production process of modeling directly in 3D space.

14 MINS LATER

26:20
It has helped us also to develop some of the quality of the spaces that we're designing.
speaker_1HOST
48:30
Mm.
Tim FuGUEST
48:31
Uh, for one-Automatic prototypers that is going to be deployed and just build and design things on site, that can be happening as well.
Tim FuGUEST
48:42
You can imagine, you know, space colonization being made a lot easier by having these AI agents being sent out to space to excavate and, uh, produce and design, doing everything as automated agents.
Tim FuGUEST
48:56
Um, automated agents in construction industry, uh, drone-operated, uh, construction.
Tim FuGUEST
49:02
Um, there's a lot of really cool things that could happen that will expedite our, uh, designing and building our built worlds.
Tim FuGUEST
49:10
And, uh, what that means is it's going to make a lot of the process much more effective and fluent so that we'll be building faster and better, more accurately, with less resources, especially human labor resources and human thinking, uh, process, which are the things that delay our current process.
Tim FuGUEST
49:32
We are partitioned as a com- uh, a- as a, you know, as, as a pipeline, everything's partitioned right now.
speaker_1HOST
50:32
Here we go.

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