Meet UNLV associate architecture professor Joshua Vermillion. When he’s not teaching classes and doing research on technology’s relationship with architectural design, he’s sharing trippy, artificial intelligence-generated room-scapes on his Instagram. In this episode of Desert Air, Vermillion sits down with Desert Companion editor-at-large Scott Dickensheets to talk about the purpose of his Instagram page, his cautiously optimistic approach to AI, and the ethical complexities of using it to help design our future living spaces.
The Vegas-based architecture professor on how he works with, not against, AI design
EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was updated on May 14, 2026, to reflect that Joshua Vermillion is an architecture professor (not also a working architect, as previously implied). Desert Companion regrets the error.
