The SpectRoom

This engaging, AI-generated conversation explores the transformative power of generative AI in creative fields, mainly through the lens of 3D visualization expert Ronan Bekerman as they read the article Ronen posted on his blog. The speakers discuss how AI tools like MidJourney and ChatGPT reshape artistic processes, from refining creative ideas to challenging our perceptions of reality. They dive...

On this week’s session, I’m joined by Lon Grohs from Chaos Group in Los Angeles. You probably know Lon from his days at Neoscape, but today he’s an integral member of the Chaos Group executive team — overseeing company strategy, brand, and founder of the Chaos Group Labs. On this session, we focus mainly on the six degrees of freedom in VR as well as upcoming projects that are cooking up in the Ch...

Today I’m joined by a previous guest from TSR 002 — Victor Bonafante from Beauty and The Bit in Madrid. Victor’s story in ArchViz started by being fired when he was working as an architect back in 2008, serving the first clients out of his big room at home, growing over time to form Beauty and the Bit with co-founder, Lina, to a team of seven people today. They’re all animals cooking images for bi...

Today I’m joined by a previous guest from Session 001 — Pedro Fernandes from Arqui9 in London. Pedro’s story spans Australia, Portugal, and London. We talk about his days as an architect in Australia and Portugal, and his gradual move toward visualization as he was teaching fellow architects in the Lisbon office about rendering, only to find out that he loves doing visualization. Upon seeing that...

Today I’m interviewing Santiago Sanchez from Tresde ArchViz Studio in Ecuador. In this session we talk about his journey, starting out as an industrial designer as he was looking for a creative outlet, becoming self-employed after a bad work experience, and how being inspired by Alex Roman led him into the State of Art Academy Master Class. After that, things took a new speed with the Best Of Week...

From the time I last interviewed Luis, at SOA Day #6, he has left Hyas Davidson to create his own London-based architectural visualization studio arsvisualis . In this session, we’ll talk about his journey as a graphic designer, from his home country in Venezuela to London, the major stepping stone that is Hayes Davidson, and all the way back to his initial passion, which is creating a killer imag...

Today I’m joined by Jakub Cech from eesome in Slovakia. He’s well known on the blog and has worked with architects like Rem Koolhaas and Isay Weinfeld. This session comes out after one year, in which Jakub took time off to create a collection of 30 images in his book Beautiful Computer Generated Images. This effort recently culminated with a new website and brand called eesome. In this session, we...

Traveling the road from animation to architectural visualization, this session brings you Alex York and Iain Banks from the London-based studio Recent Spaces. They have a remarkable body of work, and we dive into why they are in the business, how they do it and what makes them stand out. They have a somewhat unique perspective as animators that are excelling in the ArchViz world. Here are some of...

In this session, we discuss the transformation Peter Guthrie and Henry Goss made from practicing architecture alone, to joining forces to form one of the most interesting and fastest growing ArchViz studios in London today. These two have created a total powerhouse, and they’re here to share the story of their success. Here’s just a bit of what you can expect on this session of The SpectRoom . Cre...

On this last SOA Academy Day special, I’m joined with a host of talented individuals, including Teddy Bergsman from Quixel, Paul Nichols from Factory Fifteen, Frederick and Nicholas from Allegorithmic, Andreas Landgren from Tomorrow, Timothy Hoffman from Double Negative,  Ondřej Karlík, Adam Hotovỳ, and Jaroslav Křivánek from Corona Renderer, and Panos Ioannou and Gamma Basra from Foster and...

Jumping ahead one year, this session takes us to SOA Academy Day #6. On this session I talked with Peter Guthrie and Henry Goss from The Boundary, David Bullock, John Hodgkins and Luis Inciarte from Hyas Davidson, John Sellings and Silvia Tossici from Squint Opera, Victor Bonafonte and Eva Bonafonte from Beauty and The Bit, and Johannes König and Christian Zöllner from Bloom Images. If you’ve ever...

This session represents the inception point of this podcast.  Nearly three years ago I interviewed a host of inspirational people at SOA Academy Day #5.  On this session you’ll hear from Mats and Trond from MIR in Norway, Adam Hotovỳ and Juraj Talcik regarding Corona Renderer, Peter Guthrie, Christiaan Klaassen from DBOX, and Pedro Fernandes from Arqui9.  Here’s a bit about each of...

The SpectRoom is a weekly experiment. Yours truly, exploring the creative minds of architectural visualization. Finding out what makes us all tick and push our limits.   I’m always curious about what it is we do, how one goes about doing his work and why is he doing it in the first place! This podcast is an interview show, trying to find out the why, the how and the what of each of my guests.   Ex...