Bespoke Careers Podcast

What Happens When You Try to Change Architecture? - Former RIBA President, Muyiwa Oki

Download the 2026 Global Salary Guide: https://www.bespokecareers.com/salary-guide/Muyiwa Oki is an architect at Mace and was President of RIBA from 2023 to 2025, the ins

What the AIA President Wants Every Architect to Know - Illya Azaroff

Illya Azaroff calls architecture his side gig. He's also the 2026 president of the American Institute of Architects and has spent 30 years responding to disasters around

Inside the Mind of ZHA Architects' AI Pioneer - Shajay Bhooshan

Shajay Bhooshan is an Associate Director at ZHA Architects and co-founder of ZHA CODE, the practice's computation and design research group, now 28 people inside a studio

How an Architecture CEO Hires - Scott Clement, Revel

Scott Clement has seen thousands of portfolios. He doesn't want to see yours.Scott is the CEO of Revel Architecture and Design, a San Francisco firm that grew headcount 5

Starting a Design Studio - What's it Really Like? | WILDFLOWER Founders Cara & Robyn

Cara Stizza and Robyn Levin run Wildflower, a Melbourne studio that owns the furniture side of a project. Selection, procurement, coordination, everything down to the cut

What I Learned Starting A Design Studio (Without a Degree) - Mitch Jones

Want to work at amazing studios like Made For? You can browse our live jobs here: https://www.bespokecareers.com/jobs/At Bespoke we work with 1,000+ firms every year acro

How to Plot Your Own Path In Architecture - Selasi Setufe MBE

Selasi Setufe came out of architecture school with two degrees and couldn't get a job. Two interviews in two years. An unpaid internship in Slovenia she'd "highly not adv

The Most Underestimated Profession? - Chithra Marsh | RIBA Elections

his summer, RIBA elect the institute’s next president. Four candidates are running to be president: Duncan Baker-Brown, Chithra Marsh, Jay Morton and Austin Williams. We

Why Architects Aren't Taken Seriously - Duncan Baker-Brown | RIBA Elections

This summer, RIBA elect the institute’s next president. Four candidates are running to be president: Duncan Baker-Brown, Chithra Marsh, Jay Morton and Austin William

Has Architecture Lost Its Nerve? - Austin Williams | RIBA Elections

This summer, RIBA members elect the institute's next president. The RIBA president chairs the institute's council, sits on its board, and speaks for the profession to gov

Overcoming Architecture’s Biggest Challenge - Jay Morton | RIBA Elections

This summer, RIBA members elect the institute's next president. The RIBA president chairs the institute's council, sits on its board, and speaks for the profession to g

How to Accelerate your Architecture Career in 2026 - Noris Obijiaku

Noris Obijiaku, known online as Mr Chuck, is an architecture student and content creator with more than 300,000 followers across TikTok and Instagram. He's become known

How to Become a Successful Architect - Sabrina Klor

What does it actually take to run 400 architects across nine studios? Sabrina sits down with us to talk about the business of architecture - the side most architects wo

How AI Helped Design Switzerland's Largest Chocolate Park - Tim Fu

Tim Fu is the founder of Studio Tim Fu, a design practice working at the sharp end of AI in architecture, where the conversation is no longer just about the visuals and s

The Rise of India's Most Prolific Architect

Sanjay Puri is the founder of Sanjay Puri Architects, a Mumbai-based practice of 100 people with projects spanning 55 cities across India. The studio has won over 350 i

Why We QUIT Architecture - Caswell & Dainow

Charlie Caswell and Adam Dainow met at architecture school in Sheffield, climbed the ranks at London practices, and then walked away from it all to become property develo

Ex-AIA President: "We're 3 Recessions Away from Extinction!" Evelyn Lee

Evelyn Lee is an architect, entrepreneur, and tech strategist who served as the 2025 President of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She operates at the intersec

AIA President on the future of Architecture in Australia and Beyond - Adam Haddow

Download the 2026 Salary Guide: https://www.bespokecareers.com/salary-guide/ Adam Haddow is an Australian architect, partner at SJB and the current National President of

Why Architects Don't Make Much Money – Phin Harper

Phineas Harper is a London-based writer, founder and cultural leader. A regular contributor to The Guardian, their career spans criticism, curation, education, youth work

The Truth About Becoming An Architect - Lucy Carmichael

Lucy Carmichael, former Director of Practice at the RIBA and current Board Member for the University of the Built Environment, explains why the traditional, linear path i