Today we are going to be listening to the story of Anastasia Elrouss, where she comes from, her childhood, all the steps that she took in life to be the successful architect and designer that she is today, but always keeping her humanity. And we are going to be talking about the struggles, the challenges, and the not so beautiful side of being a wo…

Barnes’ research and design practice investigates the connection between architecture and identity, examining architecture’s social and political agency through historical research and design speculation. Learning from historical data and perspectives from within architecture as well as cultural and ethnic studies, he examines how the built environ…

Today we have a really interesting guest which I'm sure most of you may have definitely heard of in the past. I will give out a few guesses - she is a designer, creative technologist, and critical maker working at the intersection of fashion, architecture, and interactive design. And I quote her in one of her past interviews; "I think the discourse…

Hey, guyssss! Welcome to another episode of The Archiologist Podcast. Today in the podcast we have Jorge Rodriguez, he is a very good friend of mine who in fact, went to the same university as I did, Florida International University here in Miami. He is an incredible designer and painter, one that is extremely creative in every way. The work he pro…

Hello guys! Thank you for checking out another episode from The Archiologist Podcast. Today we have a very lively interview with Bryan Maddock, this episode was recorded before the lockdown started happening. It was the first episode in person and I have to say, we laughed SO much and it was amazing just to see the interaction we were having face t…

Hey what's up you guys! If you haven't met Hamza Shaikh, you're gonna love him. The conversation with him flowed amazingly, he is extremely knowledgeable and he is so humble to share everything he knows with us. In this episode with Hamza, we talk about something that many of you architects and designers loveeee to talk about, the educational syste…

Hey guys! Welcome to the second part of our conversation with Antonio Olombrada. If you clicked on this one and would like to listen in, don't worry it is not tied to the other episode at all, but it was all recorded in one single conversation. Here, you will find more information on branding yourself as a designer, but now on the job field. What a…

Hey guys! Welcome to another episode of The Archiologist Talks. Before continuing I'd like you to know that this is a two-part episode. Yes, it is intense, and yes it is long (that's why we split it into small, interesting, and juicy episodes). Antonio used to work at an engineering firm, as a mechanical engineer, working on solving the gap between…

Ryan Scavnicky is the founder of Extra Office. His work is published in ArchDaily, Architect's Newspaper, SCI-Arc Offramp, UCLA POOL, Archinect, and Hyperallergic. In addition, he has over 6 years of experience in international offices in Beijing, San Francisco, and Vienna. He received his Masters in Design Theory and Pedagogy with distinction from…

Sameep Padora is the principal architect and founder of sP+a, a Mumbai based architecture studio engaged in projects of multiple scales, all framed within a larger interest in history and typological research. Sameep completed his undergraduate studies in Mumbai in 1996 followed by post-graduate studies at Cambridge, where he received a Master’s De…

Julia Koerner is an award-winning Austrian designer working at the convergence of architecture, product and fashion design. She is internationally recognised for design innovation in 3D-Printing, Her designs have been featured in the National Geographic Magazine, VICE, WIRED and the New York Times among other publications. Julia is founder of JK De…

Michael Young is an architect and an educator practicing in New York City where he is a founding partner of the architecture and urban design practice Young & Ayata. Michael is an Assistant Professor at The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union. He is the recipient of the 2019-20 Rome Prize from the American Academy of Rome. Fo…

Alvin Huang, AIA is the Founder and Design Principal of Synthesis Design + Architecture and an Associate Professor at the USC School of Architecture. He is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator specializing in the integrated application of material performance, emergent design technologies and digital fabrication in contemporary archit…

Kovacs, is an academic professor and an architect, he is a faculty at UCLA and the creator and curator of Archive of Affinities, a website devoted to the collection and display of architectural b-sides. Kovacs’ work on architecture and urbanism has been published widely including Pidgin, Project, Perspecta, Manifest, Metropolis, Clog, Domus, and Fu…

Nicolas Turchi is a designer currently working at Zaha Hadid Architects and a Digital Futures PhD scholar at Tongji University. Nicholas holds a Master in Architecture II from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Bologna and University of West of England. He has worked for several firms includi…

In this episode we talk about her experience attending the top two universities in the United States, Columbia and Harvard. We talk about the most important thing to her "rethinking what design is" and asking the right questions in design. She tells me about how her and her partner Dwayne Oyler started Oyler Wu Collaborative together by basically m…

Arturo Tedeschi is an architect, independent researcher and computational designer, since 2004 complemented professional practice in Italy with a personal research on parametric design, focusing on relationships between architecture and new design tools. In 2010 he published “Architettura Parametrica”, a bestseller book on parametric design, transl…

Zoe Russian is an experimental architect that is currently focusing on Graphics & Visualizations, visual effects, animations, previs, and post-production. She aspires to improve herself as a designer and continues to learn about the CGI world as much as she can in every way possible. From CG conferences to online classes. She constantly experiments…

Today we have a very special guest, someone that we have seen grow in their professional career and personal life through our constant contact in social media, Dinorah Martinez Schulte. She is a Mexican architect that graduated from la Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City with a specialization in Creative Design Code from CENTRO. She has worke…

David Drazil is a young architect and artist from the Czech Republic, based in Prague. He has a passion for visual presentation of architecture; he shares tips & tricks on architectural sketching and creates freebies and educational resources on how to #SketchLikeAnArchitect. He is an online teacher, author, external lecturer AND the founder of Ske…

Davis Richardson is a Masters Fellow at University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a Bachelor on Interior Design from Harding University. He has been featured in podcasts, lectures and conferences, and has even appeared on the TED Talks stage, with his talk: Beyond Sustainable Architecture. He has a book out, called Going Tiny and is known in the…