Research Publications

Peer-reviewed work from the Architectural Artificial Intelligence Research Lab.

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2026 Publication

Power and Ethical Concerns in the Integration of Smart City Technologies: A Case Study of Parking Payment Applications in Israel

Jonathan Dortheimer, Gilad Chalfon
  • Venue Journal of Urban Technology
Open paper
2026 Publication

Few-Shot Transfer Learning for Cross-City Pedestrian Level-of-Service Mapping Using Spatio-Temporal Graph Models

Atakilti Brhanu Kiros, Jonathan Dortheimer, Noam Teshuva, Achituv Cohen
  • Venue Urban Science
Open paper
2026 Publication

Challenges in the Evaluation of Machine Learning Techniques in Generative Urban Design

Haya Brama, Tal Grinshpoun, Agata Dalach, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue International Journal of Architectural Computing
Open paper
2026 Publication

The changing role of diagrams in architectural publications: From creative to communicative

Hila David, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue DRS2026: Edinburgh
  • Conversational AI
Open paper
2025 Publication

Quantifying Architectural Experience using VLMs: Does AI Dream of Rendered Spaces?

Gal Goz, Nikolas Martelaro, Gerhard Schubert, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue CAAD Futures 2025 ‘Catalytic Interfaces’
Open paper
2025 Publication

AI-Driven Recommendations for Strategic Urban Renewal

Haya Brama, Tal Grinshpoun, Oded Landau, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Architectural Informatics, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2025)
Open paper
2025 Publication

Addressing Religious Architectural Restrictions with Computer Code: A Genetic Algorithm Approach

Jonathan Dortheimer, Gaya Bitman
  • Venue Architectural Informatics, Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA 2025)
Open paper
2024 Publication

Evaluating large-language-model chatbots to engage communities in large-scale design projects

Jonathan Dortheimer, Nik Martelaro, Aaron Sprecher, Gerhard Schubert
  • Venue Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Open paper
2024 Publication

When design workshops meet chatbots: Meaningful participation at scale?

Stephen Yang, Jonathan Dortheimer, Aaron Sprecher, Qian Yang
  • Venue International Journal of Architectural Computing
Open paper
2024 Publication

Towards a Robust Evaluation Framework for Generative Urban Design

Haya Brama, Agata Dalach, Tal Grinshpoun, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Data-Driven Intelligence - Proceedings of the 42st eCAADe Conference
Open paper
2023 Publication

Conceptual Architectural Design at Scale: A Case Study of Community Participation Using Crowdsourcing

Jonathan Dortheimer, Stephen Yang, Qian Yang, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue Buildings
Open paper
2023 Publication

Think AI-side the Box! Exploring the Usability of Text-to-Image Generators for Architecture Students

Jonathan Dortheimer, Gerhard Schubert, Agata Dalach, Lielle Brenner, Nikolas Martelaro
  • Venue Digital Design Reconsidered - Proceedings of the 41st eCAADe Conference
Open paper
2022 Publication

Collective Intelligence in Design Crowdsourcing

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Mathematics
Open paper
2022 Publication

Of Stones and Words - Computational Framework for Multifaceted Historical Narration of Wadi Salib

Eytan Mann, Jonathan Dortheimer, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue Human-Centric - Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2023 Conference
Open paper
2022 Publication

Toward a Generative Pipeline for an AR Tour of Contested Heritage Sites

Eytan Mann, Jonathan Dortheimer, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR)
Open paper
2022 Publication

A machine learning approach to urban design interventions in non-planned settlements

Anna Boim, Jonathan Dortheimer, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue Post Carbon - Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia, CAADRIA 2022 Conference
  • Urban AI
  • Urban Digital Twins
  • Social Impact Prediction
Open paper
2022 Publication

Poster: CHATBOTS IN THE DESIGN PROCESS - Automating Design Conversation in Urban Design Projects

Jonathan Dortheimer, Nikolas Martelaro, Gerhard Schubert, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue Tenth International Conference on Design Computing and Cognition - Bringing artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience and computational theories to design research
Open paper
2021 Publication

A Crowdsourcing Method for Architecture - Towards a Collaborative and Participatory Architectural Design Praxis

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Tel Aviv University
Open paper
2020 Publication

Open-source architecture and questions of intellectual property, tacit knowledge and liability

Jonathan Dortheimer, Talia Margalit
  • Venue Journal of Architecture
Open paper
2020 Publication

A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design

Jonathan Dortheimer, Eran Neuman, Tova Milo
  • Venue Anthropologic: Architecture and Fabrication in the cognitive age - Proceedings of the 38th eCAADe Conference
Open paper
2017 Publication

Open Source Architecture : Challenges and opportunities

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Tel Aviv University
Open paper