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Designing Forward

Conversations with the architects, designers, technologists and creative minds shaping a brighter, more creative tomorrow.
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What is Designing Forward?

Not a podcast about finished buildings. A conversation about the forces shaping what comes next.

Designing Forward brings together architects, designers, artists, technologists and creative leaders to talk about the ideas behind their work, the technologies changing their disciplines, and the questions the design world should be asking next.

Tim Fu
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Tim Fu × Hamid Hasanzade

Is AI replacing architects?

Tim Fu joins Designing Forward to explore Astra, agentic AI, AI-native architectural practice, computational thinking, design judgment and what happens when machines move from generating images to actively participating in the design process.

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About the host

Hamid
Hasanzade.

Hamid Hasanzade
Hamid Hasanzade is an architect, entrepreneur, computational researcher, speaker, and founder of ParametricArchitecture. He completed architectural education in Iran in 2012 and started the ParametricArchitecture platform in 2016.
Being a host at the PA Talks, he has interviewed world-renowned architects, designers, artists, and engineers about their works, methodologies, and their visions for the future. By working at the PAACADEMY, an educational platform powered by PA, Hamid has conducted dozens of workshops, conferences, and events during the past several years.
Architecture as context

Built ideas.

Between conversations, the page becomes an architecture publication in its own right—using strong project photography, spatial rhythm and editorial pacing instead of a conventional podcast-grid aesthetic.

Heydar Aliyev Center
Heydar Aliyev CenterZaha Hadid Architects · Baku
Lucas Museum
Lucas MuseumMAD Architects · Los Angeles
Valley
ValleyMVRDV · Amsterdam
Designing Forward + PA Talks Archive

The voices shaping tomorrow.

A living editorial archive of conversations spanning architecture, technology, computational design, fabrication and culture.

Peter Eisenman

Peter Eisenman

Founder of Peter Eisenman Architects

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Patrik Schumacher

Patrik Schumacher

Parametricism, computation and architectural futures

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Winy Maas

Winy Maas

Research, radical cities and future-making

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Arthur Mamou-Mani

Arthur Mamou-Mani

Founder of Mamou-Mani Architects and Fab Pub

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Julia Koerner

Julia Koerner

Founder of Julia Koerner Design

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Ben van Berkel

Ben van Berkel

Founder of UN Studio Architecture

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Melike Altinisik

Melike Altinisik

Founder of Melike Altinisik Architects

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Winka Dubbeldam

Winka Dubbeldam

Sci-Arc Director and Founder of Architectonics

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Moshe Safdie

Moshe Safdie

Founder of Moshe Safdie Architects

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Mariana Cabugueira

Mariana Cabugueira

Founder of Mariana Cabugueira Studios

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Philippe Block

Philippe Block

Structural intelligence, geometry and material efficiency

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Design is not standing still.
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About the series

Designing
Forward.

Designing Forward, previously PA Talks, is a podcast by Parametric Architecture exploring the people, ideas and technologies transforming the creative world. Hosted by Hamid Hasanzade.
From architecture and computational design to artificial intelligence, culture and emerging technologies, the series looks beyond finished projects to examine the thinking, experimentation and ambition behind what comes next.

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