If you are a young professional or student, get ready for some serious motivation. Shawn and I had a heartfelt discussion about failing in university; dealing with obstacles in London, and learning about his journey to working with Bjarke Ingels on a major national project. We uncovered the secret to building your brand from scratch and raising your profile in a difficult profession. Shawn has used his architectural background to start a business in social consultation within the built industry. The POoR Collective is still in its infancy but is already making major moves.  Having comple ..read more

How do you build an online presence in the field of architecture or design? Is it 'bad' to want 'followers' and 'likes'? What opportunities are architectural influencers getting through social media? How can you balance a full-time architecture job alongside social media content creation? If there's anyone who can help me answer these questions, it's Fraser. My long time digital friend and architecture drawing pen pal. Fraser is a graduate from the London School of Architecture and currently works at Architecture 00. He has a large social media following where he shares speculative drawing st ..read more

How do you start an architecture school from scratch? What changes are coming to architectural education/university and the profession? What is so special about London? Join me and the extraordinarily well-spoken Will Hunter in a deep dive into how he started The London School of Architecture,(LSA) England's first independent school of architecture since the Architectural Association opened in 1847. Will Hunter is a writer, entrepreneur and educator. He is the founder of the London School of Architecture, which he conceived in 2010 as an alternative educational model to widen access into the ..read more

THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL EPISODE with Jordan Whitewood-Neal, my good friend from university! Jordan was a multi-award-winning student and after having worked for Stirling Prize winners DRMM, he went on to be a visiting lecturer at the University of Brighton. His dissertation, 'The Cascade Experiment: The Growth, Conservation and Cultivation of An Autoethnographic Woodland' was nominated for the RIBA Presidents Medal. He is also the Architects’ Journal Student Prize 2020 Nominee and the RIBA Sussex Student Prize 2020 Nominee. We spoke about how he deals with Proteus Syndrome, one of the world's ..read more

In this episode, I speak with Rebekah Coffman, a historian and curator based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. She has worked in various cross-sections of religious, educational, arts, and history-based spaces. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Religion and a Master of Arts in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. Religious identity is changing rapidly in the west. As eastern-influenced traditions embed themselves in increasingly cosmopolitan regions, orthodoxy comes into question. Can orthodoxy become redefined through architecture? Join me in this deep, unapologetic and powerful ..read more

In this episode, I speak with my good friend Faisal UK, co-founder of metaverse platform Illusorr and the Archi-Tech Network as well as the founder of the popular Instagram page ARK. If you want a quick introduction to all things metaverse and the future of our roles in the age of VR, this is the episode for you. We spoke about the fundamental nature of architectural thinking; the future of our profession; and whether Elon Musk is just a genius or an evil genius. Faisal believes the future of our profession will need to be highly technocentric and therefore students need to start becoming pr ..read more

In this episode, I speak with Rishabh Wadhwa, creator of the popular architecture YouTube channel BlessedArch. Rishabh and I speak about the challenges in running social media platforms as students & architects. We openly spoke about how much money YouTubers/influencers can actually make. We also discussed ways in which people can drastically improve their career opportunities by being active on Instagram and YouTube.  BlessedArch: "From Cities to the device you are using to view this, everything has design behind it and I am trying to uncover it. On this channel you will find every ..read more

In this episode, I speak with Charlie Edmonds, co-founder of the Future Architects Front (FAF).  In the last year, the FAF and Charlie have been making waves in the field of Architecture raising massive awareness around the exploitation of architectural assistants in the UK. His campaign started as an Instagram poll and transformed into a national survey that was headed by the Architects' Journal. As a result of his whistleblowing campaign and continual social media activism, the Architectural Registration Board (ARB) and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) initiated institu ..read more

In this episode, I spoke to Marcus Fairs, The Editor in Chief and founder of Dezeen. The world’s most influential design magazine. Now I’m gonna be honest with you, I was a little nervous for this one. Because I’ve known the name Marcus Fairs since the early days of university, and Dezeen has had a huge impact not just on me but the entire field of Architecture. It’s changed the discourse. I never thought I’d be sat opposite its founder asking him questions about how he partied with Kanye West and flirted with Zaha Hadid. But Marcus was not an easy person to interview, probably because HE'S n ..read more

In this episode, I spoke to Tabish Khan, 'The People’s Art Critic'. Tabish is a London-based art critic and regular writer for the Londonist and FAD Magazine. But he is also a biomedical scientist who cuts up dead bodies, but don’t worry that’s just part of his job.  Tabish is a really unique person because from his scientific education, he transitioned inadvertently into becoming an acclaimed art critic with a huge and growing following. He regularly visits architectural projects and has a keen interest in the art of building. So who better to ask if a building is beautiful than him? B ..read more