Research Publications

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

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2025 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
  • Urban Studies
  • Urban Digital Twins
2025 Publication

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

Jonathan Dortheimer, Gaya Bitman
  • Venue CAADRIA 2025
  • AI-Assisted Design
  • Urban Studies
Open paper
2025 Publication

AI-Driven Recommendations for Strategic Urban Renewal

Haya Brama, Tal Grinshpoun, Oded Landau, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue CAADRIA 2025
  • Urban AI
  • Social Impact Prediction
Open paper
2025 Publication

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

Gal Guz, Nikolas Martelaro, Gerhard Schubert, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue CAAD Futures 2025
  • AI-Assisted Design
  • Synthetic Humans
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
  • Conversational AI
  • AI-Assisted Design
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
  • Conversational AI
  • AI-Assisted Design
Open paper
2024 Publication

Towards a Robust Evaluation Framework for Generative Urban Design

Haya Brama, Agata Dalach, Tal Grinshpoun, Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue eCAADe 2024
  • Urban AI
  • Social Impact Prediction
  • AI-Assisted Design
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
  • Collective Intelligence
  • AI-Assisted Design
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 eCAADe 2023
  • AI-Assisted Design
  • Conversational AI
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 Design Computing and Cognition 2022
  • Conversational AI
  • AI-Assisted Design
Open paper
2022 Publication

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

Anna Boim, Jonathan Dortheimer, Aaron Sprecher
  • Venue CAADRIA 2022
  • Urban AI
  • Urban Studies
Open paper
2022 Publication

Collective Intelligence in Design Crowdsourcing

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Mathematics
  • Collective Intelligence
  • AI-Assisted Design
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
  • Urban Studies
  • AI-Assisted Design
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 CAADRIA 2023
  • Urban Studies
  • AI-Assisted Design
2021 Publication

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

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Tel Aviv University
  • Collective Intelligence
  • AI-Assisted Design
Open paper
2020 Publication

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

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

A Novel Crowdsourcing-based Approach for Collaborative Architectural Design

Jonathan Dortheimer, Eran Neuman, Tova Milo
  • Venue eCAADe 2020
  • Collective Intelligence
  • AI-Assisted Design
Open paper
2017 Publication

Open Source Architecture: Challenges and opportunities

Jonathan Dortheimer
  • Venue Tel Aviv University
  • Urban Studies
Open paper