hello everyone and welcome back to my channel today we will do something new
I'm starting a new show is calling ask professional our guest today special
guest is one of the most popular architects blogger "arch_more" or "the modmin"
and that's why I invited him today to my channel to ask you some question
hello Hamada and before we all start may you introduce yourself to my audience
hello so my name is Hamada I'm director and a
co-founder of "the modmin" that means I manage content creation on "the modmin's"
YouTube channel and as well I do work on "the modmin's" future projects and some
of the current projects that we're working on we open a dialogue free your
opinion about the architecture in nowadays what do you think about that
architecture nowadays you know like we are in in a certain position where we
have a lot of new tools a lot of things that that have literally changed the
industry if you know what I'm saying so by having things like such as BIM
and all these new technologies and tools it's not just that I mean architecture
is still design you know you talk about you know problem solutions and creating
you know structure solutions actually made architecture very different than
how it's ever been so with with that in mind you know like as you can see you
know with all these new architecture days coming around you know with all
these new buildings that we see nowadays the style has changed and and I think
computer or digitalization of architecture has have a big influence on
that as we know, your Instagram is specialized on the architect's sketches
right so what do you think is it sketch is still important nowadays or is
something old thing I think sketching is important it's just that
the quality of sketching I think that everyone sort of misunderstood is that
you really have to come up with amazing drawings in order for that
like I mean it's called sketching right sketching is just coming up with a rough
drawing in order for you to communicate right so when I sit down with a client I
usually you know do sketching do I sketch for them my idea just to
communicate and explain to them what they what I'm actually planning on doing
because that's how they would understand you when you talk to someone there is
not an architect usually you need some sort of visual communication right
whether you actually sketch for them something whether you show them a
picture of like an example or something of that right sometimes it's a
combination of both you know like I was like oh I'm I'm actually thinking of
doing this idea and then I go ahead and grab a pen and just start sketching but
it doesn't have to be the greatest sketch I'm not saying you should do a
masterpiece you know in your sketch sketching just something really rough
but it's it's very fresh it's very fast it just to communicate your idea and
make the client understand it better Are you an architect or you're engineer and
where did you study so I studied my foundation and architecture part one in
architecture and part two in the architecture here in Cyberjaya in Malaysia
so I think you know of course that means I'm an architect
I mean opium Alicia I'm actually not a professional architect yet I just barely
got my part to recognition however I do practice occasionally it's just that now
my name actually ends up on on the project paper so but that's okay I
practice under very good architects I studied here in Cyberjaya at a university
called Limkokwing University great University actually you know this
particular university you know I was really really lucky to have certain
lectures who were really really good you know we had people from the industry
although I think I would like to mention few names like mr. Adianta Aziz AR
is actually now a consul on the board of architects and in Malaysia
here all these people they actually are in into the industry they're not just
academics they do academics but however they also practice architecture which i
think is very very important because they do inspire you from real world
situations you know it's like where they were practicing they had this and that
and I think that's that's really really good as I know you have been starting
your Instagram in school years so how you get this Idea? when I started
the Instagram that has actually I I just started to design things you
know back in 2012-2013 and I wanted to publish them and I did I I just
published few things and it got exposure some people were sharing it I found out
like the few pages that actually shared it and things that I was like that's
interesting you know it's it's quite nice and I wanted it to be shared on
other platforms and for example I did approach Archdaily and I give them my
project and they said hey I still have the reply on facebook they said "oh it's
quite nice can we publish it" because it doesn't fall under our scope
of publishing like they they publish real projects that's what they do right
which is quite nice because now we get published on our daily few times so it
was like there was a need for creating a certain platform that published you know
work whether it's like done by a student or done by someone they just art right
so I started few page I did a page where like it was just about rendering another
page was about you know about about photography architecture photography I
did one was about modeling and I did one about sketching I think that's the one
that sort of got a lot of attention and the reason for that because it's always
fresh you know you're always sketching or is just like ideas that are in the
first stage right not all of ideas keep going all the way until becoming into
production and things that I think people do need that sort of stream of
inspiration on their daily life and it's sort of stuck since then okay so we all
think about technology and already mostly about baam as you know I have
channel about this software tell me which program architects should know
nowadays maybe especially in your area I mean in Malaysia I would say you
definitely, need to learn a software there is BIM capable at least you
know that's what the industry is requiring out a it's not yet required I
still have friends dues that still actually practice with AutoCAD which I
think it's amazing you know like how could you still you know either
sometimes what you do in Revit in one day could take a team of 20 people one
week to actually finish it especially when it comes to changing things which
happens all the time right no software but BIM, I would say that's
definitely something that you need to learn
then you have some a big project can you tell us what is that well okay um I do
have a big project coming up with "The Modmin" I would say okay I don't want to
give up a lot of details however what I could say is we were because we we took
some time out as you can see from YouTube we took a break a really long
break and it was all just to work on that project we basically wanted to find
a way to enable us to maintain our channel and at the same time we wanted
to establish something that would promote free education we wanted
something that because I think a lot a lot of people are taking advantage of
having you know having internet access and being able to you know to to gain
your education skills from internet I think there are of course a lot of
companies that do provide courses which are amazing however is that I don't
think someone has and this yet to understand that it's quite different
it's not like you know going to school watching a video online is something
days very different than watching someone I mean if you would record me
giving a four hour lecture I I doubt many people are gonna watch that entire
video right however when you make a video for youtube it's it's very very
different it's very light is very informative it's very fast because
someone is looking through that content and just wants to find a solution to
something so again with all that in mind we're creating some sort of a new
solution that is going to help everyone gain their education online all right
that's all I could say about it but it's coming really really soon before we all
start to blitz time I want to ask you the last question any suggestions for
our friends definitely do a lot of research don't rely on a certain outline
like oh this is what I need to learn there is no limit to what you learn
always being you know like on the lookout what are the new technologies
what comes up you know in the news always watching you see how how you know
people have been designing just don't don't be always open about architecture
okay that sure you need to know a lot of a lot of things and it's not just a lot
of things about architecture you know for example now I technically I run an a
tech company at the moment is on architecture practice but at the same
time is because you need to learn about everything in order for you to be a
it a great architect so and now we will start the bliss time a short question
short answer just just for second whoa and the first question is
architecture or engineer architect a of course ok the next one is Revit or
ArchiCAD okay Revit But let me say just why Revit, because of one
thing or a desk look at the community that Autodesk has I mean if you take a
look at the market the market you know has been saturated with AutoCAD AutoCAD
like the greatest you know the most popular architecture software you know
since I was born I've seen AutoCAD right so having another software from the same
company and at the same time the community you know behind that software
it's very very important before learning any new software that you have a
community that will support you once you need something you know from that
particular software that that's why I would say Revit
internship or competition internship because you need to learn from others
and it's not now I mean competition you do work with others and all but
internship you most likely will work with professionals and you get to learn
from people are that are in the industry, Vray or Lumion
it always depends on post-production at the end of the day right I mean lumen
Lumion has been getting really really good you can get like really great results and
some of the clients don't really care about you know we think being very
photorealistic I mean it only sometimes the only when it comes to like interior
design and things like that you know well these things are very important
however showing the shape of the building and you know with
post-production everything could be could be achieved right Salary or
experience that's a tough one okay because experience is very important
however you should always get paid always make sure you get paid it's your
responsibility to get paid and it's your responsibility to not spoil the market
don't do work for free always get paid for what you work for and gain
experience of course ok that's it thank you her mother for these all
questions for your answers this was really great and I think all
viewers will so appreciate you for your answers I do want to say something
before we finish or all right man no thanks thank you so much for having me
I'd love to do more of these in the future with you and good luck with your
channel you've been doing a lot of great things Thank You Man and see you next
time I hope