Every episode, one person doing the work walks us through the real thing: the tools they tested, the process they built around them, and what came out the other side. Architects, educators, researchers. No demos, no hype. Just how it actually goes.
AI is not an automation problem, and Akheel Khan makes the case with rare clarity. If you work in architecture, AEC, product design, or any field feeling the pressure of AI disruption, this conversation reframes the entire debate around first principles, human judgment, and the real job technology should do.
Akheel Khan is a South African architectural designer, researcher, educator, and co-founder of the Institute of Building Design, where he heads the AI, machine learning, and deep learning department and trains firm owners and future managers across the AEC industry. He is lead examiner for South Africa’s Professional Practice Examination, the exam candidates pass to become registered architectural professionals, and led the integration of emerging technologies, financial literacy, and business into it. Through An Architect, the organization he founded, his team built free preparatory content, workshops, and custom GPTs that helped raise the pass rate, with the country’s top-ranked candidate coming out of their groups and classes.
Full bio & chapters3 episodes so far. New conversations land regularly.
Why AI is a new form of human-computer interaction rather than an automation layer, why AI visualization is not rendering, and why domain expertise matters more as the tools improve.
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Where AI becomes a collaborator rather than a replacement, and why the advantage belongs to people who can still think critically, communicate clearly, and lead the design process.
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The pilot process BWBR built to test AI tools safely, why visualization was the first place it clicked, and how AI is freeing architects to engage clients in new ways.
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