Author: Hamid Hassanzadeh
Hamid Hassanzadeh
Hamid Hassanzadeh 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 today exists as much on screens as it does in cities and few have shaped that shift more powerfully than Anil Bayramiç. Through Architecture & Design, he built the world’s largest architecture-focused Instagram community, now followed by over 8 million people on Instagram and more than 10 million across digital platforms. What began 12 years ago as a small passion project has grown into a global digital force that influences how millions engage with architecture, engineering, innovation, and design every day. At the heart of this journey is a sharp instinct for visual storytelling and a deep fascination with…
For centuries, architecture was learned through proximity. The apprentice stood beside the master. The student sat in the studio. Knowledge traveled through drawings pinned to walls, conversations around models, and critiques that stretched long into the evening. Architecture education was fundamentally physical, tied to specific institutions, cities, and geographies. Today, that model is being challenged, not because it has lost its value, but because the world around it has changed faster than any curriculum can adapt. Architecture is no longer defined solely by buildings. It now intersects with artificial intelligence, computational design, digital fabrication, environmental simulation, immersive visualization, robotics, data…
On AI, education, and what we lost when we stopped teaching people to think, By Ila Colombo
Isfahan is not a city you merely visit, but it’s a city you enter, like a vast room lined with mirrored walls, where time folds inward and every reflection tells a different story. Nestled in the arid heart of Iran, Isfahan once stood as the glittering capital of the Persian Empire, a place so enchanting that a 17th-century proverb declared it “Isfahan nesf-e jahan”, “Isfahan is half (of) the world.” A Journey Through the Soul of Iran At its height during the Safavid era, under the reign of Shah Abbas I, Isfahan underwent a radical transformation. It was no longer…
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ABB has opened a mega 67.000 sqm robotics factory in Kangquiao, Shanghai, China. The new factory is flexible, and modular production cells are digitally connected and networked.
In the Midjourney Architecture workshop, participants learned some of the secrets of prompt crafting and the intricacies of iterative design evolution.
The famous musician will.i.am collaborated with Honeywell and Jose Fernandez to create a high-tech face mask, “Xupermask,” with built-in Bluetooth headphones.
Designed by AL_A in 2016, MAAT Lisbon is located in Lisbon’s Tagus, Belem district with its outward-facing structure on the riverbank.
Designed by minD Studio, Mind Fashion Tower was a metaverse gallery project inspired by natural forms of blooming flower petals.