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Send us Fan Mail This is the 2nd Episode of Season 13, focused on "Architects and Mental Health". Using their own experience after graduating from Part 2, Naziaty reflected on the incident when they started work at a company in Malaysia, where they felt like a "failure", as they did not fit in the office culture. On observation, it was a great learning encounter, where in the b...

Send us Fan Mail Starting off the new season - Season 13 - the article "Profession of Architecture - A profession of stress?" is reviewed and commented upon by the host, Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. The article contained information that is commonly accepted on what architects do, but has not been critical enough in examining what is "architecture culture". However, this is the first e...

Send us Fan Mail The concluding part of a trilogy of episodes focuses on summaries and ideas of what has been said, and a proposal of the direction Malaysian schools of architecture need to take when considering what 'architecture' is in the bigger scheme of things. It is evident that architecture is the 'mother' of all creative endeavors and not to be adopted by engineering an...

Send us Fan Mail This episode continues with a discussion on Architecture Education and the direction that schools of architecture in Malaysia may take in lieu of ARB’s proposal. Link to article.  At least this gives food for thought on that development and the questions to be asked in the bigger picture of future guidance. ©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ X...

Send us Fan Mail I attended the Final Crit of Unit B, at the end of the first degree architecture course program at UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday and had an absolutely positive and interesting time with my fellow guest critic and students who presented. This is an honest review of what I experienced regarding the students presentation and program that they did. Thank you to Bak and Gi...

Send us Fan Mail Post Script - this is a  summary of the discussion and debate based on the latest interview with Cheah Kok Ming and others such as Lillian and Lok Wooi plus the clubhouse discussion in the last weeks on “broad-based versus specialized education” and “culture of critique”. This opinion piece by Naziaty, the host of this podcast, suggests the direction of Malaysian schools of archit...

Send us Fan Mail Eid Mubarak Special Podcast Episode: An interview with Cheah Kok Ming, with the host, Naziaty, focusing on "learning in the studios". "I tend to see design education in a larger way that's slightly beyond defining, giving students an unknown problem...what's important is that when you give them a known problem it is always a known solution. And then some s...

Send us Fan Mail Soon on this podcast : an interview with Cheah Kok Ming, discussing with the host, Naziaty, on the design thesis and M Arch design studio and how NUS has an approach in architecture education that competes at the international level in terms of getting their graduates to obtain “life skills in learning how to think”.  ‘Kok Ming leads a studio at sophomore and MArch level. As a des...

Send us Fan Mail Watch out for a future podcast episode on A Discourse on the Culture of Critique which will feature in the next season.  Addressing the problem of the lack of professionalism in architecture critique in Malaysian architecture fraternity and how that influences society. There will be a panel discussion on this.  ©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©...

Send us Fan Mail An Interview with Ar. Lillian Tay, a well known member of the Malaysian architecture fraternity, Director of Veritas Architects, former PAM President in 2019, with the host Naziaty, talking about Malaysian architecture education and “broad based architecture education”, its importance to be considered and how this approach will assist the future of architecture graduates.   ©️Talk...

Send us Fan Mail An Interview with Ar. Lillian Tay, a well known member of the Malaysian architecture fraternity, Director of Veritas Architects, former PAM President in 2019, with the host of this podcast, Naziaty on architecture practice and the “role of Malaysian Architects Institute (PAM - Malay acronym)”, where it is necessary to create a culture of critical thinking amongst architects. ©️Tal...

Send us Fan Mail A Teaser on the Interview with Ar. Lillian Tay, a well known member of the Malaysian architecture fraternity, Director of Veritas Architects, former PAM President in 2019, with the host of this podcast on architecture education (part 1) and architecture practice (part 2). Watch out for “broad based architecture education” and “role of Malaysian Architects Institute (PAM - Malay ac...

Send us Fan Mail Who is the architect? Do you identify as an ‘architect’? Is being an architect your identity? And what is that - the identity of an architect? Some reflections that suggests that architects need to face up to AI (artificial intelligence) amongst other things.  ©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): Khoo Boo Siew of Juteras Design Workshop aerial vi...

Send us Fan Mail Part 3: How can we turn these seemingly generic topics generated by Artificial Intelligence into a design thesis project?  ChatGPT - topic: what is the university curriculum  > “postgraduate architecture design thesis. “  Part 1 & 2, dealt with topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 9 & 10 Part 3 deals with:  5. Strategies for Revitalizing Aging Infrastructure in Rural Areas 6. Examining t...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up next, I will be in conversation and interviewing Gary Yeow, a recent architecture graduate, and podcaster, whom I met at the Clubhouse audio platform during the pandemic lockdown period in 2020  and we, together with others such as Ar Lok Wooi, discussed numerous topics on architecture education and practice. Gary Yeow is co-founder of projectxyz – a design collective en...

Send us Fan Mail In an interview, the guest who is Gary Yeow, together with Naziaty, resulted in two podcasters discussing alternative methodologies in architecture. More of a conversation dedicated to the role of the Malaysian Architects Association (Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia - PAM) and how open engagements such as discourse and debate are needed to address all other issues and sentiments surfac...

Send us Fan Mail Part 2: How can we turn these seemingly generic topics generated by Artificial Intelligence into a design thesis project?  ChatGPT - topic: what is the university curriculum  > “postgraduate architecture design thesis. “ And the AI came up with these topics below.  I made commentaries on topics 1, 9, and 10. (See the whole list in the previous episode post). For Part 2, these a...

Send us Fan Mail Part 1 : How can we turn these seemingly generic topics generated by Artificial Intelligence into a design thesis project?  ChatGPT - topic: what is the university curriculum  > “postgraduate architecture design thesis. “ And the AI came up with these topics below.  I made commentaries  on a few of these topics namely 1, 9 and 10. I will make commentaries on the rest later.   1...

Send us Fan Mail The 2nd Part episode starts with listening to the collective voice calling for the design thesis as a crucial year, the beginning part of an architect's journey into their career, to be led by a design practitioner and not the academic. The project could fuel the passion of the budding architect to explore their interest and life-long learning.  This episode will explain the...

Send us Fan Mail A two-parter starting with this episode - why the design practitioner needs to be the leader in the design thesis studio unit for the final year of the graduating architect. And not the full-time academic.  A crucial understanding of how to design, manage and provide for the best start to a soon-to-be graduating student of architecture journey into the world of practice where the...

Send us Fan Mail Special Architecture Education Podcast Review on the Design Thesis After much discussion in the last decade, there are some hard truths to face. The most decisive year in architecture education is the fifth year where for the design thesis program, the students need to choose their own topic and seek a supervisor or a tutor who comes from the industry.  A person collaborating with...

Send us Fan Mail The Conversation you are waiting for is finally here, an interview with Ar. Lok Kuang Wooi on Architecture Education focusing on the Design Thesis process with Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, Ph. D.. Lok Wooi believes that Malaysian universities "don't really have that paradigm shift yet" and the main view we agreed on after deliberating and arguing on the Clubhouse audio plat...

Send us Fan Mail Coming up soon is a conversation that summarizes differing opinions and consolidates similar views on architecture education, in particular, where Lok Wooi and others had deliberated and debated in previous Clubhouse audio platforms and other face-to-face events in the past decade. Lok Wooi's concerns about the potential of younger architects and graduates are very much in ev...

Send us Fan Mail Some exciting insights to why as an architect we cannot skip those lost skills and methods in drawing manually as it can make us unstuck when it does not feel right while doing CAD / digital drawings. That and a lot more in-depth discussion on why manual drawings are very relevant and even more so in this day and age. A sentiment expressed by Amin Zakaria, who professed that “draw...

Send us Fan Mail In terms of purely production work there is no denying that CAD / digital drawings are better than manual drawings. However from initial ideas and concepts and right to detail design, manual drawings are essential and even better than CAD because of that connection between human and drawings. An interview with Amin Zakaria (teaser out soon)  who does both and is an architectural e...