genenv.ai
Generative Environments Lab
Index
Selected work.
Research, tools, courses, exhibitions, and writing from a lab in formation.
Projects
Current work.
Teaching
Course archives.
Courses are treated as public research environments, with selected student work credited inside each archive.
DES 212: Design Media II
Design media, representation, computation, and critical tool use.
ARCH 515: Design Media I (LARC)
Media foundations for landscape architecture.
ARCH 540: Studio V: Designing the Design
Studio as a space for designing design systems and methods.
ARCH 639: Media for Landscape Architecture III: Dynamic Systems
Dynamic systems, computational workflows, and landscape media.
Writing
Publications.
2026
Computational lexicalization: Development and practice of a design agent framework
Architectural Journal, in press
2024
Reinventing planting design in landscape architecture: A generative AI approach
Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
2024
Integrating generative AI into landscape architecture education
Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
2022
RiverGAN: Fluvial landform generation based on physical simulations and GAN
Journal of Digital Landscape Architecture
People
People.
Xun Liu
Assistant Professor, UBC School of Architecture + Landscape Architecture
xlstudio.orgResearch Assistants
Current work includes Decoding Urban Form and GenAI & LLM-Enabled Co-Design.
Students + Collaborators
Graduate supervision, course archives, workshops, and selected student projects.
About
Generative Environments Lab studies spatial AI, design media, and computational methods for constructed environments.
Founded by Xun Liu at UBC SALA, the lab connects architecture, landscape architecture, artificial intelligence, and design computation.
The website is an evolving archive of research projects, tools, teaching, exhibitions, publications, and selected student work.