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Tune in to the PA Talks interview series featuring Melike Altinisik, an Istanbul-based practicing architect and founder of Melike Altinisik Architects (MAA) with Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder of ParametricArchitecture. Melike Alt?n???k is an award-winning architect, designer, and educator, who is dedicated to developing an innovative approach towards architecture, urbanism, and design. Her work aims to develop the relational thinking capacities of architecture in relation to design technologies.

In this episode of PA Talks, Mario Carpo and Gilles Retsin discuss architecture and automation in the context of the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath. As global production chains have proven to lack resilience, local, digital manufacturing presents a compelling alternative.

In this episode of the PA Talks interview series, Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder of ParametricArchitecture, discussed with professor Hanif Kara, a professor in practice at the Harvard GSD, and co-founder of AKT II. The discussion focused on Hanif’s career, his secrets of success, collaborations with the world’s top architectural studios, and his visions for the future.

In this episode of the PA TAlks series, the future of architecture as a specialty and its practice was one of the main topics reflected on the screentime interview with James von Klemperer, President and Design Principal of Kohn Pedersen Fox, hosted by ParametricArchitecture’s managing editor Alexi Aslihan Arslan.

The Mexican Architect, Michel Rojkind, discussed his journey, career, passion, hobbies, projects, and the impact of music on his architecture in the PA Talks series with Hamid Hassanzadeh, Founder of PA. Michel Rojkind is the founding partner of Rojkind Arquitectos and Vice President of Ground-up Architecture at WeWork. According to Forbes Life, a representative of a Mexican generation of architects transforming the country.

The Mexican architect, Fernando Romero was interviewed for the PA Talks series via an Instagram live interview during the COVID-19 pandemic. Hamid Hassanzadeh, the founder of ParametricArchitecture, spoke to Romero of FR·EE on a live discussion at the Architectanddesign channel about his architectural career, projects, collaborations with the stalwart -Norman Foster, and his visions for the future of architecture.

PA interviewed one of New York Five; Peter Eisenman, architect, educator, and founder of Eisenman Architects for the PA Talks series. Eisenman conversed with Hamid Hassazadeh, the founder of PA on a diverse range of topics covering his journey, inspiration, and his works. 

In this episode of PA Talks, the Founder of PA – Hamid Hassanzadeh, interviewed the founder and innovator of MAD Architects Ma Yansong through an Instagram live session. Ma Yansong brought fame to the architecture field in China by becoming a worldwide known Chinese architect in the international scene. His interests lie in exploring contemporary architecture with context-aware designs in relation to eastern values of nature, resulting in complex geometries that inspire with awe.

Richard Hassell, founding director of award-winning WOHA Architects was interviewed by Hamid Hassanzadeh, Founder of PA in a candid conversation on his diverse set of works in the PA Talks series. Richard Hassell was born in 1966 and graduated from the University of Western Australia in 1989. He was awarded a Master of Architecture degree from the RMIT University, Melbourne in 2002.

In this episode of PA Talks, Patrik Schumacher, an architect and architectural theorist based in London had a candid conversation with Hamid Hassanzadeh, founder of ParametricArchitecture sharing the challenges and ongoing projects. Patrik Schumacher, is the principal architect of Zaha Hadid Architects.