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Send us Fan Mail The Concluding Part [Part 2] of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Aisyah Razin explained on how it is important to "always be curious, consistent and grounded" for women architects to negotiate the building industry. The content is more on how you need to manage yourself with other people. More podcasts on this topic coming soon with interviews line...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Aisyah Razin discusses about the importance of mentors, getting the right opportunity and architectural company in the beginning, creating a high content value in yourself, having the right mindset and priorities, amongst other things. Tune in to find out more and do give your opinion / feedback on what you think...

Send us Fan Mail A Teaser introduction on a conversation with Ar Aisyah Razin in the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles. (Part 1 & 2 - coming soon.) Ar. Aisyah Razin is an emerging Malaysian architect redefining leadership with clarity, conviction, and just the right amount of chaos. As Technical Director at TriArch Architects Sdn Bhd (formerly S&A Architects), she oversees a r...

Send us Fan Mail This commentary is a reaction to Ar. Firadaus Khazis’s post where he stated that architecture graduates has problems with “not just plans, sections, elevations, but the ability to sketch out ideas, details, and solve problems on the spot”. The root of the problem is in the lack of teaching and learning of the students in architecture school to acquire the right skills to work out...

Send us Fan Mail Since March 2025, we have listened to the conversations with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model, the MAW Review and did episodes on social media comments coming from the the architecture fraternity (with episodes on  the Dumbing Down of Architecture Education), so ... what have we learned so far? We can't ignore the 'elephant in the room' and it is the &...

Send us Fan Mail Based on a post by an architect asking for solutions to a "popular opinion" that he kept on hearing architects say, which is " how university graduates / architectural education don’t meet the standards / not up to par", and asking that those people who complains to offer solutions, this episode is on exactly that. The solution to the 'dumbing down of the...

Send us Fan Mail Based on a post by a civil engineer / surveyor that was critical of young architects in particular, whom was called "make-up artists" that makes decisions for the the consultants team, based on marketing and pitching ideas with the client and not even gone to the site, had people commenting. Thus the case being made resulted in Naziaty Mohd Yaacob's commentary on wh...

Send us Fan Mail This is a criticism of the trend to oversimplify "architecture education" in my opinion, so that "design" (competencies) can be controlled. All architects and architectural designers need to be livid about this, and nothing else. I saw a post that the UIA Education Committee wants to have a webinar called "Aligning Education Across Allied Built Environment...

Send us Fan Mail Expanding on the last episode on  The MAW Review: A Commentary on the Malaysian Architecture Dialogue Let's focus on The MAW Review 2 and delve into the keywords found during the discussion on "awards", "heroes" and "pride". I added "managing egos" to the 'pride' discussion as an afterthought on what we need to do in the archi...

Send us Fan Mail The Malaysian Architecture Week is still on-going and Naziaty Mohd Yaacob managed to catch up with what's happening by coming for the Borak Borak 04 session and listening to the speakers and the conversations after left me thinking that a small opening was created by the architecture fraternity to be more open and more critical on architecture practice and education. This is...

Send us Fan Mail The Concluding Part [Part 2] of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Dr. Eleena Jamil explained the concept of a "glass ceiling" for the women architect in the Malaysian architecture industry that is predominantly male-dominated, and among other things gave suggestions on what institutions could do to provide the support needed for the women architect...

Send us Fan Mail In Part 1 of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Dr. Eleena Jamil discusses some questions posed by female mid-level architects such as: Have you ever faced discrimination, even subtly, when working on large-scale projects involving many male consultants, clients, and contractors? and; Have you ever faced resistance or bias when stepping into leadership roles i...

Send us Fan Mail Kicking off with a teaser on a series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles with Ar. Eleena Jamil, the Principal of Eleena Jamil Architect, an Adjunct Professor and was in the Dezeen Architect of the Year 2018 and featured in 100 Women: Architects in Practice, published by RIBA in 2023. There will be two parts of the interview with your host, Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, discussing amon...

Send us Fan Mail This is a warm-up introduction to the bigger topic of "Women in Architecture" which is part of a new series. Using an article as a reference to a general topic:  Five Reasons Why We Don’t See More Women In Leadership Roles LINK Mila Smart Semeshkina (the author of the article) proposed there topics: 1. Gender Bias; 2. Lack of Role Models; 3. Work-Life Balance; 4. Stereot...

Send us Fan Mail A new series on the critical model of disability, where under the 'architecture and disability' umbrella, using readings and commentaries, we analyse the article by Matthew Allen (2021) in Part 1 episode. Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image of a street la...

Send us Fan Mail A new series on the critical model of disability, where under the 'architecture and disability' umbrella, using readings and commentaries, we analyse the article by Matthew Allen (2021) in Part 2 episode. Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image of a hospital...

Send us Fan Mail A new series on the critical model of disability, where under the 'architecture and disability' umbrella, using readings and commentaries, we analyse the article by Matthew Allen (2021) in Part 3 and concluding episode. Designing for Disability Justice: On the need to take a variety of human bodies into account © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image...

Send us Fan Mail The continuation discussion on a "Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model - Part 2", with your host, Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, concentrates on these points on architecture education: 1. The obsession with 'formalism' and having an identity to build a brand giving 'false confidence' to a graduate. 2. Focus need to be on the 'po...

Send us Fan Mail You are welcome to listen to a "Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model - Part 1" [Talk Architecture Podcast with your host, Naziaty Mohd Yaacob] The first episode highlights the education systems particularly the Greek Civilisation's influence on current university models on liberal arts, which is all about "relationships". The id...

Send us Fan Mail A heads up to the coming two-parter episodes on a Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model. In the teaser episode a synopsis on what is a balanced education model based on the fundamentals referred to the Greek civilisation and how it gives rise to the liberal arts education and eventually disciplines such as architecture. A broader perspective of what is h...

Send us Fan Mail The first part of this series explains the mastery of designing with “the plan and section” is now a missing skill in current architecture education where schools of architecture neglect this very important skill by allowing students to design with 3D modeling first and emphasizing too much on this aspect.  This discussion focused on how the emergence of Functionalism and the Bauh...

Send us Fan Mail We introduce this topic that whets our curiosity on the differences and similarities of form-making in art and architecture. A quick observation and discussion was made on the "aesthetics" objective that defines how one would approach this subject. This will follow as a series and the following sub-topics will be discussed: 1. The Role of the Bauhaus and the Emergence of...

Send us Fan Mail The Concluding [Part 3] episode focuses on the main discussion of Why the Bauhaus is still important to be a precedent and model for architecture education and the learning of the architecture graduate. The idea of functionalism is not separated from form. What is separated is how architecture needs to be the “mother” of the creative and design process in the design studios and ot...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2 discussion on the topic of how Bauhaus influences current architecture education and practice, do refer to the YT video by Dans Le Gris on the “What is the Bauhaus? Discover the Pioneers of Modern Design”. The discussion expanded on the points taken from the video where in Part 3 we will focus more on the relevance of Functionalism and what we learned about the Bauhaus and...

Send us Fan Mail Concluding part [Part 3] discussing the crucial moments when the “bad news” / feedback given to you feels like a rejection and make you feel like a failure. How do you react to that so that you could turn the rejection around and move on?  An overview of the architecture community including groups in social media platforms, society in general and others such as consultants in the...