PA Talks

Tune in to Episode 24 of the PA Talks series with Moshe Safdie, an architect, urban planner, author, educator, and theorist. Over a celebrated 50-year career, Safdie has explored the essential principles of socially responsible design with a distinct visual language. Moshe Safdie graduated from McGill University and after apprenticing with Louis I. Kahn in Philadelphia, he returned to Montréal to...

On this episode of PA Talks Podcast, Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder of ParametricArchitecture, hosted the Danish architect Kim Nielsen. Kim is Founder and Principal of 3XN and since the start of the company in 1986, Kim has been the creative driving force behind 3XN. He functions as the creative director and has overall responsibility for the architectural quality of 3XN’s work from the idea to the fi...

Tune in to Episode 22 of the PA Talks series with Hernan Diaz Alonso and Erick Carcamo. Hernan Diaz Alonso is an Argentinian architect, the current director/ CEO of SCI-Arc, and the principal of Los-Angeles based architecture office HDA-X. He moved to Los Angeles in 2001 to pursue filmmaking, product & motion design and founded Xefirotarch in the same year. Alonso often uses animation software...

Tune in to Episode 21 of the PA Talks series with Kengo Kuma, a Japanese architect, founder of Kengo Kuma and Associates, and professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Tokyo. After graduating in Architecture from the University of Tokyo in 1979, he worked for a time at Nihon Sekkei & Toda Corporation and then shifted to New York to enroll at Columbia University as a visi...

On this episode, Hamid Hassanzadeh , founder of ParametricArchitecture, spoke to Melike Altinisik , an Istanbul based practicing architect and founder of Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA). Melike Altınışık is an award-winning architect, designer and educator, who is dedicated to develop an innovative approach towards architecture, urbanism and design. Her work aims to develop the relational thinki...

Mario Carpo and Gilles Retsin discuss architecture and automation in the context of the covid-19 crisis and its aftermath. As global production chains have proven to lack resilience, local, digital manufacturing presents a compelling alternative. What does this mean for architecture? How do we as architects shape an agenda for increased automation in such a way that it benefits all? This talk expl...

Tune in to Episode 18 of the PA Talks series with Hanif Kara, a Professor practicing Structural Engineer and Professor in Practice of Architectural Technology at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is recognized for linking design, research, education and practice. He co-tutored a Diploma Unit at the Architecture Association, London from 2000 to 2004 and was a Visiting Professor of Architect...

Tune in to Episode 17 of the PA Talks series with James von Klemperer, President and Design Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates. As President of the firm, he is responsible for leading the staff of 750+ people in 10 offices around the world. His work ranges in scale from house to the city, and he contributes these efforts closely from conception to completion. He received his Bachelor of Art...

Hamid Hassanzadeh in conversation with Bailey Shugart and Erick Carcamo. Workshop information: https://parametric-architecture.com/the-illusion-of-form-paacademy/ One week online workshop by PAACADEMY in collaboration with ALLBLACKFORM. The main aspiration of this workshop is to precisely develop a critical argument based on an individual research, which will translate into pure geometrical-formal...

Tune in to Episode 16 of the PA Talks series with Michel Rojkind, the founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and Vice President of Ground up Architecture at WeWork. According to Forbes Life a representative of a Mexican generation of architects transforming the country. In 2002 he founded Rojkind Arquitectos. Since then, the firm has been on a strong path of innovation and exploration of architec...

Tune in to Episode 15 of the PA Talks series with Fernando Romero, a Mexican architect, urban designer, educator, and author. Romero joined the office of Rem Koolhaas after graduating from Universidad Iberoamericana in Architecture in 1995. In the wake of establishing FR-EE in 2000, the firm has realized and proposed projects in a variety of countries that encompass different programs and contexts...

Tune in to Episode 14 of the PA Talks series with Peter Eisenman, one of architecture’s foremost theorists of recent decades that also has an apathy for current trends that architects engage in. He is an internationally acknowledged architect and educator whose award-winning large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and series of inventive p...

Tune in to Episode 13 of the PA Talks series with Ma Yansong, the founder and principal of MAD Architects. Ma is the first Chinese architect to win an overseas landmark-building project. Ma holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Beijing Institute of Civil Engineering and Architecture, and a Master’s Degree in Architecture from Yale University. His interests lie in exploring contemporary architectural...

Tune in to Episode 12 of the PA Talks series with Richard Hassell, founding director of WOHA Architects. We discussed about Richard’s career, works, the importance of sustainability in architecture, WOHA’s vision for future and his advice for young professionals.  Richard Hassell was born in 1966 and graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989. He was awarded a Master of Archit...

Tune in to Episode 11 of the PA Talks series with Stefan Antoni, an architect based in Cape Town, South Africa. He is the director of SAOTA Architects and is regarded as one of the numbered architects who have contributed to setting a new standard of design and professionalism in the top end of the domestic market in South Africa. He set up the practice in 1987 after completing his Bachelor of Arc...

Tune in to Episode 10 of the PA Talks series with Patrik Schumacher, an architect and architectural theorist based in London. He is the principal architect of Zaha Hadid Architects, widely known for working with Dame Zaha Hadid since joining Zaha Hadid Architects practice in 1988. He completed his architectural diploma and received his degree from Stuttgart University in 1990, andreceived his Ph....

Tune in to Episode 09 of the PA Talks series with Cyril Lancelin, a French architect and visual artist. He began his career working for architects as well as artists in Paris and Los Angeles by using 3D modeling techniques and virtual images developed in the 1990s. Cyril decided to start his own creative studio in 2016 and since then he has developed a hybrid work of sculptures, immersive installa...

Tune in to Episode 08 of the PA Talks series with Sanjay Puri, the Principal Architect of Sanjay Puri Architects and speaker at the Leading European Architects Forum and The World Architecture Festival. After graduating from the Academy of Architecture, Mumbai in 1988, he worked as an Associate with Architect Hafeez Contractor and later commenced Sanjay Puri Architects in 1992. Sanjay strongly bel...

Tune in to Episode 07 of the PA Talks series with Refik Anadol, a media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of machine intelligence. Refik creates parametric data sculptures through hypnotic audio and visual installation experiences. Embedding media design into architecture, he questions the possibility of a post-digital architectural future in which there are no more non-digital reali...

Tune in to Episode 06 of the PA Talks series with Alireza Taghaboni, the four-time recipient Iranian architect of the ‘Memar Award’ and founder of Nextoffice. Having received his Ph. D. at Azad University of Science and Research, Taghaboni has years of working experience in different architecture offices, is a tutor and partner at the Center for Contemporary Architecture, and consequently establis...

Tune in to Episode 05 of the PA Talks series with Chris Precht,  an award-winning Austrian architect and the co-founder of Studio Precht. After graduating with honors from the Technical University of Vienna in 2013, he founded his first firm Penda with architect Dayong Sun. Consequently, in 2018, he found Precht and Partners with his wife Suger Fei in the mountains of Austria. He has received...

Tune in to Episode 04 of the PA Talks series with Habibeh Madjdabadi,  a notably prominent Iranian architect of the younger generation. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Architecture from Azad University of Tehran, she established her studio in 2003 in Tehran. She has received numerous awards and recognitions such as Aga Khan Award, Tamayouz Women in Architecture, and many more. Her...

Tune in to Episode 03 of the PA Talks series with Ferda Kolatan, an Associate Professor of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennslyvania and the founding director of New York-based practice SU11. After receiving his architectural diploma with distinction from the RWTH Aachen in Germany and his Masters in Architecture from Columbia University, Kolatan has lectured and ta...

Tune in to Episode 02 of the PA Talks series with Mario Carpo, an architectural historian, and critic on his latest book The Second Digital Turn, released on October 13, 2017, interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh. In this book, Carpo has discussed Voxelation or Voxelization style in Design. The interview covers Carpo’s insights on the fundamentals of this style and where it comes from. Mario...

Welcome to PA Talks episode 01. As you all know PA Talks interviews architects who share their experience with projects, design tools, how their ethos aligns with these tools, and what are the steps we need to take in bettering the environment we live in. In the first episode of PA Talks, Hamid Hassanzadeh visited one of the famous Turkish architcts, Han Tumertekin in his office and asked him abou...