About

Stanislas Chaillou is an architect, designer and AI-researcher working today at Rayon. His practice, publications, teaching and exhibits tackle the back-and-forth between geometry, artificial intelligence (AI) and culture. Trained both as an architect and an applied-AI researcher at Harvard and EPFL, Stanislas' interests lie in the weaving of design and computation.

Stanislas is today the co-founder of Rayon, a Paris-based startup building the next generation of space design tools. Through its collaborative, online platform, Rayon aspires to provide an updated toolset to the "architecture of the 90%".

Previously, Stanislas worked as an Architect & Senior Data Scientist at Spacemaker’s R&D department, and as a Machine Learning Engineer at Helix and Flux.io. Stanislas also taught generative AI at the architecture school IAAC, in Barcelona.

Stanislas has lectured widely, from Harvard, to the MIT Media Lab, the Sorbonne University, ETHZ, EPFL, l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, IAAC, or others. He has given public conferences at the Moniteur Innovation Day, the European BIM Summit, the DKT Conference, the Pavillon de l’Arsenal, and other venues.

Stanislas received his undergraduate degree in Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne (EPFL, '14), and his Master in Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD, '19). Stanislas was awarded two American Architecture Prizes ('17) and the Architecture Masterprize ('18). He also received the 2018 ZGF scholarship for his past architectural work. He was also a Fulbright scholar, an Arthur Sachs Fellow and Jean Gaillard Fellow at Harvard University.

Conferences & Talks

Académie Nationale de Médecine
  • Paris, France, Janvier 2024
Herzog & de Meuron
  • Basel, Switzerland, May 2022
University of Southern California
  • Los Angeles, USA, September 2021
DesAIgn Conference
  • Holon Institute of Technology, Israel, May 2021
Forum GeoIA
  • Geneva, Switzerland, March 2021
La Soirée de l'Excellence Française
  • Paris, France, Février 2021
Design++ - ETH Zurich
  • Zurich, Switzerland, October 2020 | link
AIA International Region 2020
  • London, UK, November 2020 | link
Polytechnic University of Catalonia
  • Barcelona, Spain, November 2020
Sorbonne Université
  • Paris, France, October 2020
École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées
  • Paris, France, October 2020
AI in Architecture Symposium - ETH Zurich
  • Zurich, Switzerland, October 2020 | link
Harvard GSD
  • Cambridge, MA, USA, October 2020
Moniteur Innovation Day
  • Paris, France, October 2020 | link
Building Beyond Conference - Vinci Group
  • Paris, France, October 2020 | link
DigitalFUTURES WORLD Conference
  • Shanghai, China, June 2020 | link
30 Minutes pour demain | Leonard, Vinci
  • Paris, France, April 2020 | link | view
Media Lab
  • Cambridge, MA, USA, March 2020
EPFL
  • Lausanne, Switzerland, March 2020 | link
Pavillon de l'Arsenal
  • Paris, France, February 2020 | link | view
Harvard GSD
  • Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2019 | link | view
DKT Conference
  • Olso, November 2019 | link

Press & Features

Bio Morphosis
  • designBOOM | AI-generated animations by Stanislas Chaillou | link
Exhibit "AI & Architecture"
at the Arsenal Pavilion
  • Le Figaro | "Architecture et intelligence artificielle: premiers plans" | link
  • ArchiCrée #394 | "Intelligence Artificielle & Architecture: un Monstre Utile ? "
  • Hochparterre, September 2020 | "Wenn der Computer Grundrisse entwirft"
  • Le Moniteur | "Quand l'intelligence (artificielle) vient aux architectes" | link
  • Le Moniteur | Conférence-exposition | link
  • Le Moniteur | "«Intelligence Artificielle & Architecture» : visite virtuelle de l’exposition" | link
  • ArchDaily | "AI & Architecture Coming to the Pavillon de l'Arsenal" | link
  • The Architect's Newspaper | "AI & Architecture at Paris’s Pavillon de l’Arsenal goes digital" | link
  • Immoweek | "Promenez-vous (virtuellement) au Pavillon de l’Arsenal" | link
  • Chronique d'Architecture | "Intelligence artificielle & architecture" | link
  • Hochparterre | "Virtueller Rundgang" | link
  • BatiActu | "Expo virtuelle : Intelligence artificielle et architecture" | link
  • Fulbright | "Conférence et exposition de Stanislas Chaillou" | link
  • Architecture à Vivre | "Intelligence artificielle et architecture" | link
  • Harvard, Grounded Visionaries | "Stanislas Chaillou MArch ’19 Designs Exhibition on ‘AI & Architecture" | link
  • ArtPress | "L’informatique au service de la création, ou l'inverse ?" | link
ZGF Award
  • Stanislas Chaillou, ZGF Award 2018 Laureate | link
  • ZGF Scholarship | Laureates | link
Architecture MasterPrize 2018
  • Architecture MasterPrize | The Refuge, a Hotel on Stromboli Island | link
  • Fulbright France | link
American Architecture Prize 2017
  • American Architecture Prize | Our Lady of the Fields, a Cathedral for South Boston | link
  • "Stanislas Chaillou (MArch ’19) receives two honors from Architecture MasterPrize for “Our Lady of the Fields” | link
AI & Architecture
Thesis at Harvard GSD
  • Towards Data Science | link
  • Nvidia | ArchiGAN: a Generative Stack for Apartment Building Design | link
  • ARCH + 236 | "KI und Architektur - der entwerfende Computer" link
  • Archdaily | "AI Creates Generative Floor Plans and Styles with Machine Learning at Harvard" | link 1 | link 2
  • Archdaily | "BuildTech Futures: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning" | | link
  • Archdaily | "Pioneers: 6 Practices Bringing AI into Architecture" | link
  • Archdaily | "When Machines Design: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Aesthetics" | link
  • Archinect | "Would artificial intelligence like to say something about architecture?" | link
  • Archinect | "Generating Bias in Architectural Design with Stanislas Chaillou" | link
  • Leonard, Vinci | "Could AI become an architects’ indispensable ally ?" | link
  • AI Scholar | "Architectural design and AI. Introduction of floor plan generation using GAN" | link
The Advent of Architectural AI
  • Towards Data Science | link
Urban Tech on the Rise
  • Urban Tech on the Rise | FACTS Reports, Veolia Institute | link
  • Harvard Real Estate Review | link
Metabolism(S)
  • ArchDaily | Harvard GSD Student Envisions Autonomous Building that Rearranges Spaces Throughout the Day | link
  • KooZA/rch | Metabolism(S), Space Flexibility in the 21st Century | link
  • Harvard Real Estate Review | link