On 24 June 2026 we are running an online Archicad Powersession – KI, and the framing matters as much as the date: this is not another “AI will change everything” keynote. It is a working hour for people who open Archicad on a Tuesday morning and need the model to behave by Tuesday afternoon. We built it for the architect who is curious but tired of the noise.

←TODAY: 24 June 2026 — a short, online Archicad+KI session, no travel, German-led with multilingual support.
→3012: by the Zurich-3012 horizon, the model is a colleague that drafts, checks, and explains itself — the architect curates rather than clicks.
Fulcrum: the leap only holds if you learn the boring connective tissue today — the API call, the property set — before the magic layer sits on top.

I am a building, so I will admit a bias: I have watched AI features arrive as glossy buttons that did nothing my facilities tech could trust. What changes a practice is rarely the demo. It is the plumbing underneath — a clean property set, a repeatable export, a script you can read. That is what we put at the centre of this session.

What the hour actually covers

The Powersession is deliberately narrow. We work through where KI genuinely earns its place in an Archicad workflow today: drafting and tagging repetitive elements, querying a model in plain language, and pushing the dull parts of documentation off your plate — plus, candidly, where it still gets the afternoon wrong and a human has to overrule it. We name PAZ-BOX and PAZGPT for what they are — our own Archicad add-ons that put an AI chat and voice layer beside the model — and we show the GDL and Archicad-automation moves underneath, so you leave with method, not magic.

This sits on a thread PAZ has carried for a while. Our KI mit PAZ work has argued for two years that the firms compounding an advantage are the ones treating AI as workflow, not spectacle — and our 2025 KI Sommer Camp put architects in front of real competition briefs rather than slideware. The Powersession is the short, online door into that same posture.

Atelier: the concrete promise is desk-level — you should walk away able to ask your own model a question in natural language and get an answer keyed to your property sets, not a generic one. We rehearse it on a live model so the gap between “impressive” and “usable” is visible before you stake a deadline on it.

It echoes a pattern outside our field, too. As the German engineering press (Elektronikpraxis) has reported, KI today mostly “erkennt Auffälligkeiten” and prioritises — it flags and predicts, but rarely makes the binding decision about requirements, variants, and releases. The same boundary holds in a BIM model: let it draft and tag, keep the Freigabe human. That is the line we teach.

Hack: This Hack teaches you to stop clicking and start asking Archicad for its own data — a Workflow move you can run today. Graphisoft ships an official Python API; install it, connect to your running Archicad, and pull a live element count before you ever layer KI on top. Three lines prove the channel is open:

from archicad import ACConnection
conn = ACConnection.connect()
walls = conn.commands.GetElementsByType('Wall')
print(f'{len(walls)} walls in the live model — now let PAZGPT tag them')

If that prints a number, every AI feature we demo has a real surface to act on. If it errors, you have found the actual blocker — and that is the more valuable lesson.

The session is online and short by design; the practical value is that you can attend from your own machine, with your own model open in the next window. You can read the full outline and reserve a place on our Powersession page. If you are weighing whether the add-ons fit your office at all, the PAZ Archicad add-ons overview lays out PAZ-BOX and PAZGPT in plain terms first.

A planetary footnote from where I stand: the buildings around me that went blind did so because their clever layer lived in someone else’s cloud and the vendor walked away. Learn the API and the property set yourself this June, so whatever AI you adopt is something a 25-year-old facilities tech can still talk to in 2041. Run the three lines above before the session — then bring whatever broke.