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Our Interviews section opens a window into the minds of architects, designers, and thinkers shaping today’s built environment. Through in-depth conversations, leading voices share their design philosophies, creative processes, and the challenges behind their most significant works.

Each interview moves beyond biography, offering candid insights into how ideas become structures and how practice responds to material, technology, and context. From global icons to emerging talents, these dialogues capture the ambitions and questions driving contemporary architecture and design.

PA Talks 46 – Sergei Tchoban

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Tune in to episode 46 of PATalks, where we were delighted to speak with the Berlin-based architect, Sergei Tchoban in an insightful long-form interview. Sergei Tchoban is the founder of the SPEECH Architecture Office and Partner at Tchoban Voss Architects.

PA Talks 45 – Robert McNeel

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Watch the PATalks Episode 45, the first-ever interview with Robert McNeel, the founder, and CEO of Robert McNeel & Associates, the company behind Rhinoceros 3D, one of the most favorite software among designers. In this exclusive interview with Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder and editor in chief of PA, Robert McNeel describes his early career, professions before establishing the company, and what led them to start and build this new software. McNeel also explained RhinoInside, the new feature in the software, and shared ideas about the upcoming features such as Grasshopper 2 and the integration of 3D Printing software in Rhino and Grasshopper.

PA Talks 44 – Patrick Abbattista

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Episode 44 of the PATalks is a conversation between Hamid Hassanzadeh and Patrick Abbattista, founder and CEO of DesignWanted, one of the best digital magazines about art, architecture, and design. Patrick’s multi-faceted experience in digital marketing for creative businesses and vision for realizing designers’ creative and commercial potential led to the birth of DesignWanted in Milan, in 2015. Today, the platform reaches over 20 million people every month due to its social media presence.

PA Talks 43 – Filippo Nassetti

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On this episode of PATalks, we are joined by Filippo Nassetti, an architect and computational designer focusing on research and innovation for the architecture and product design industries. After completing his Master’s Degree at the University of Bologna, he worked for Plasma Studio Architects in London along with SPAN in Vienna and consequently co-founded MHOX in 2012. MHOX is an EU-funded start-up focusing on the design of wearable products and speculative prostheses through generative techniques and 3D printing.

PA Talks 42 – Nuru Karim

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On this episode of PATalks, we are joined by Nuru Karim, an Indian architect and the founder and principal of NUDES, an architecture studio that operates within the realm of cross-disciplinary cultures of art, architecture, and computational design.