The Geeks Design Show - "Where great architecture begins."

What does it actually take to build something from scratch — while also working full-time, studying for a Master's, winning international design awards, and freelancing for one of the most exciting AI-first studios in London? Today's guest is doing all of that simultaneously — and somehow making it look considered rather than chaotic. Pouya Nasr is an Iranian-born architect and designer now based...

EPISODE TITLE: Design Is the Most Radical Act of Hope — Joanna Nsenga on humanitarian architecture, community dignity, and what JI's model is changing about the built world   SHOW NOTES: Season Two begins. And it begins here.   Joanna Nsenga is an architect and Senior Project Manager at Journeyman International — the nonprofit that pairs volunteer designers with humanitarian NGOs to build schools,...

Hello, my nerdy, geeky, brilliantly obsessed designers — Episode Six is here. And this one is for everyone who is trying to figure out where AI fits into their actual practice. Naman Mehta is an architect, founder of IntelliBuild Group, co-founder of StageLens AI, and one of the most active AEC educators in the world right now. He has trained over 3,000 professionals across 40 countries — and he s...

EPISODE TITLE: From Kharkiv to Xi'an to Dubai. And Every Render Was Worth It. — Olga Myronova-Kopysova on 3D visualisation, the AI revolution, and what Dubai does to your design ambition SHOW NOTES: Hello my nerdy, geeky, beautifully obsessed designers — Episode Six is here. And this time, we're going to Dubai. Olga Myronova-Kopysova has one of the most extraordinary design journeys I've come acro...

Hello, my nerdy, geeky, ridiculously talented designers — Episode Five is here. And this one is for the practitioners. Ar. Md Abdul Vasi is a COA-registered architect, BIM-VDC specialist, and AI-integrated workflow practitioner based in Hyderabad, India. He's worked on hospitals, high-rise towers, luxury villas, and now — remotely — on restaurant chains across Canada. And he started his AI journey...

When the Robot Is the Architect — A conversation with computational designer & robotic fabrication researcher Cansu Ersoy SHOW NOTES: What if the waste material from the paper industry could become the structural wall of a building — printed by a robot, graded for strength exactly where it's needed, and designed to biodegrade at the end of its life? That's not a hypothetical. That's the resear...

My closest friend — a brilliant, five-year trained architect — put her chai down, looked me in the eyes, and said: "AI is garbage. We are losing real talent because of this." And here's the thing. She's not entirely wrong. In Episode 01, Divya gave you the hype reel. The cheat codes, the wins, the vision. In Episode 02, she's having the conversation Episode 01 deliberately skipped: the real fears,...

  You didn't spend five (or seven) years in architecture school to spend your weekends recalculating floor areas. You didn't join this profession to argue with a staircase that's two centimetres off-code.   In this debut episode, Divya Goel makes a bold case: AI isn't coming for your job — it's coming for your grunt work. Think of it as the best promotion you'll ever get.   What you'll hear in thi...