Parametrics + fabrication workshops

A new crop of architecture workshops is teaching designers to move from code-driven form making to images and fabrication in the same workflow. (paacademy.com 1) (paacademy.com 2) At the center of that workflow is Grasshopper, the visual programming system inside Rhino that lets architects change geometry by editing rules instead of redrawing objects by hand. PAACADEMY’s “AI City Urban Design in Grasshopper & ComfyUI” course says it uses Grasshopper for city-scale geometry and ComfyUI for artificial-intelligence image generation from concept through final visuals. (paacademy.com) (parametric-architecture.com) PAACADEMY lists the AI City workshop for May 23-24 and May 30-31, 2026, taught by Albert Sumin on Zoom. The course page says students will build adaptive urban systems, develop building and facade schemes, run environmental analysis with Ladybug, and assemble presentations with Photoshop, Google Flow and Premiere Pro. (paacademy.com 1) (paacademy.com 2) A second PAACADEMY class, “3D-Printed Wall Systems,” shifts from city concepts to interior construction details. Its course page says participants use Rhino and Grasshopper to turn a two-dimensional idea into a textured three-dimensional wall surface shaped by manufacturing limits as well as visual intent. (paacademy.com) (parametric-architecture.com) PAACADEMY lists that fabrication course for April 18-19, 2026, taught by Mirko Daneluzzo on Zoom. The school says the workshop focuses on bespoke, production-ready interior wall systems and on toolpaths and workflows that can be adapted for desktop and larger-format three-dimensional printing. (paacademy.com 1) (paacademy.com 2) (paacademy.com 3) The same skills are showing up in free tutorial culture. How to Rhino says it publishes hundreds of Rhino and Grasshopper lessons, and recently posted a Grasshopper facade tutorial tied to Google’s Bay View headquarters in Mountain View, California. (howtorhino.com) (youtube.com) That Bay View reference point is a real building with unusual geometry, not a paper exercise. ArchDaily and Heatherwick Studio both describe Google Bay View as completed in 2022, designed by Bjarke Ingels Group and Heatherwick Studio in collaboration with Google, and developed as Google’s first ground-up campus. (archdaily.com) (heatherwick.com) Facade tutorials like How to Rhino’s typically break those complex skins into repeatable operations. How to Rhino’s own teaching materials describe parametric facade workflows built from attractor logic, while the Bay View tutorial highlighted Closest Point, lofting and domain tools to control how surfaces change across a facade. (howtorhino.com) (howtorhino.com) The through line is that schools and creators are packaging the same software stack for different scales: urban massing, facade studies and printable interior parts. Instead of treating rendering, geometry and fabrication as separate specialties, these classes present them as one continuous design pipeline. (paacademy.com) (paacademy.com) (howtorhino.com)