ABAD Co.

Not a Bad Company

1. PROFILE

II. Publications

III. projects

  1. Overexposed
  2. Train Yourself
  3. Normal House
  4. VA Design LLC
  5. Thomas Demand: House of Card
  6. Greater Toronto Art 21 // GTA360
  7. Countryside: The Future
  8. Booth Cabin
  9. House in North Rustico
  10. Teach on the Beach

IV. teaching

  1. Between the Seams
  2. The Meat We Live In
  3. No Work/Life
  4. LoFi / Mile-X
  5. Phy/gital Ornament
  6. Lazy Computing

    No Work/Life




    This graduate design studio examined the intersection of artificial intelligence and evolving labor practices through speculative office building design. Students explored how AI technologies are transforming both contemporary design labor and workplace environments, drawing from Deleuze and Guattari's concept of the "body without organs" to understand AI as non-hierarchical, deterritorialized systems.

    The curriculum unfolded through three progressive exercises: first, students produced custom image libraries with Midjourney and trained StyleGAN2 models to generate "latent spacewalk" animations; second, they translated these digital experiments into 3D-printed physical artifacts using the open-source medical imaging software 3D Slicer; finally, students synthesized their research and formal experimentation into speculative office tower designs for downtown Cleveland.

    The studio challenged the paradigm of the office tower as a modernist extrusion through spatial organizations that reflected post-pandemic work culture. Students developed expertise in tools including Midjourney, Runway ML, and ZBrush while crafting exquisitely detailed physical models. Final projects interrogated how the breakdown of traditional work/life boundaries demands new architectural typologies for the contemporary office building.


    Rees Jones



    Gabriel Firestone

    Ethan Simon



    Christian Milleson