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Send us Fan Mail We started the discussion based on quotes and snippets found in Facebook chats specific to problems with the architecture profession from a women architect's point of view, to give us some ideas for future interviews.  ©️Talk Architecture 2023, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit - Image from the article: https://www.architectural-review.com/essays/how-architecture-che...

Send us Fan Mail Up next on Talk Architecture Season 12, we shall focus more on what is exactly happening using primary data with regard to architecture education and architecture practice. We shall be interviewing people who are concerned about these things.  This is the link to Amin Zakaria's link featured in arch daily:  https://www.archdaily.com/974048/top-11-architectural-sketch-educator...

Send us Fan Mail A more detailed explanation of Design For All, precisely in the context of the Minister of Transportation in Malaysia's effort in the last 2 weeks to rectify the immediate problems of public transportation facilities such as lifts (elevators), escalators, and other issues, while proposing some points relating to accessible transportation. ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naz...

Send us Fan Mail This is an overview discussion of the term 'design for all', defined, and explained from the 'activism' point of view, how it is implemented in architecture education from the first year to the fifth year and how it relates to architecture practice. ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob.  Photo credit ©️ Universiti Malaya, Author: Low Joo Yin&ap...

Send us Fan Mail Discussion on the architecture design thesis projects based on context-specific from 2016, focused on Kg Baru, Bukit Ceylon, Kg Kerinchi, Petaling Jaya old town, and UM Campus where the design problems were identified and were made challenges during the design process and how the recent political discussion and proposal on values and ideas such as TVET were dealt in those design t...

Send us Fan Mail The discussion in this episode is delving deeper into the relevance of the design thesis projects and architecture in dealing with real community architecture projects echoing real needs proposed by the Education Minister in presenting the core value discussed in Part 1. Examples from the 2019-2020 batch (Kg Kerinchi) and 2020-2021 batch (Old town Petaling Jaya) projects published...

Send us Fan Mail Focusing Core Value 3, proposed by the Education Minister on the poverty of children from B40 (The bottom 40% of the population) where it is to do with malnutrition, means or device or technology and spaces of learning, were dealt with in the design thesis projects from the 2019-2020 batch (Kg Kerinchi) and 2020-21, namely by Yasmin Nazihah and Chiang Her (both projects published...

Send us Fan Mail In light of the coming general election, we know that a degree in philosophy is not available  in Malaysian universities. How do university students learn about democracy and politics?  Referring to the teaching of politics in universities, I would like to bring attention to utilizing practitioners including people from all background to teach and give their opinions in the archit...

Send us Fan Mail Would you study in a school that focuses on drafting and construction or art, architecture and history with more thought-provoking work? Can we have both? We tried to do that when I was teaching in the final year (design thesis) and it is interesting that this issue was raised by others in a Facebook group full of architects.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob....

Send us Fan Mail What’s the difference between learning to draw by hand and using software or digital architecture tools? What’s the best software tool?  Someone asked the question why architecture companies prefer their employees to draw in Autocad as they felt that it’s easier to draw in Archicad and Revit. This led to many conversations and led me to believe that we lost the ability to design i...

Send us Fan Mail Are clients unclear about the word ‘design’ especially in their role as the financier of the residential design project? Are the clients easily influenced by media such as HGTV and Pinterest images and videos on design styles and question the architect’s decision on ‘design’? Does the architect accept this situation and just give the client what they want?  ©️Talk Architecture 202...

Send us Fan Mail The title of this podcast episode was posted by an architect (employer) in a Facebook Group (Private) where most of the members are architects. I have permission to quote from them and expand on this issue of the architectural graduate that could not draw architecture in an architectural practice and suggests that this issue is not uncommon, as verified by a number of employers (c...

Send us Fan Mail Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 132, “Environmental Hypocrisy” on an academic who talks about sustainability but does not practice sustainability, hence a hypocrite.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Bus Stop drawing by Kamelia Jam...

Send us Fan Mail Focusing on architecture education and why it is important that the process of imagining and visioning a design and putting it out as a drawing, or model with a strong description and narrative (essential keywords) is the key to starting being an architect. In a previous episode, we touched upon 'architecture and reality' and what is real. In this episode, we argue that...

Send us Fan Mail Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 116, “Crediting Coworkers” on the issue of the principal or director of the company not acknowledging the architect responsible for doing the job as "the means to an end", rather than "the ends themselves" as per Immanuel Kant.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty M...

Send us Fan Mail Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 118, “Accommodating Disabilities” on the dilemma of hiring a person with disabilities to be their employee in an architecture company.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): "Talk Architecture" by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob; Bus Stop drawing by Kamelia Ja...

Send us Fan Mail In conjunction with the coming general election in my country where corruption issues have been reported, it is time to discuss this topic to ask the question of the word ‘corrupt’ and how it is interpreted in architecture practice and education. Purely a personal interpretation quoting a 'religious text' with regard to what is transactional in the right way. ©️Talk Arch...

Send us Fan Mail When you commit your vision to paper, you have transported your dreams into reality. For a student of architecture, drawing your vision and what you visualize is real. There is a process of discovery from this exercise even though it is not built, what more for an architect who builds their vision.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, author Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): Wong Chiang...

Send us Fan Mail We continue with the idea of the architect where in the past, the architect is given the exclusive role to lead the project from beginning to completion. However, at present, this is not necessarily so, depending on the type of project and contract, the architect may only be involved in parts / certain phases of the project. This episode touches on that idea of a 'master buil...

Send us Fan Mail This is a commentary and reading of Joseph Brennan's article published in September 2021 published on medium.com. (Article link below). The overall idea is for Brennan to introduce "Digital practice for architects: a manual". In the first article, I referred to the first article: " The challenges facing architecture", where quote: To rethink architecture,...

Send us Fan Mail A commentary on a selected topic that was discussed before, examining in detail and recounting six second-year students' desk crits done online, where if they were to master these fundamental skills, they will know how to design properly and are set for life. The ability to visualize the plan, section, and 3D (axonometric) manually is crucial in developing these skills as sug...

Send us Fan Mail In the conversation that Kevin Mark Low and I had with the 5 architecture graduates, Gan (2021) gave his design thesis views at the end. He said: "So the problem is when the world didn't give chances for us, they didn't prepare the environment, we go and seek it." He also talked about why the Universiti Malaya campus design is fascinating as all the projects re...

Send us Fan Mail Observation and Starting Conversations is the core fundamental skill that is needed to be learned and cultivated when we first start out in architecture, at the very beginning of learning to be an architect before one is able to solve design problems.  It's a very important thing to do in terms of the exchange of ideas that we create starting conversations. This follows a ser...

Send us Fan Mail This is a commentary on the conversation that Kevin Mark Low had with the 5 architecture graduates featured in the last two episodes, specifically on the use of Revit software tool and issues in architecture practice particularly on skills building at university and how it translates in practice.  ©️Talk Architecture 2022, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): Screenshot o...

Send us Fan Mail The Continuation of Sharing Conversations [Part 2]: with Kevin Mark Low and Naziaty, host of this podcast, plus 5 former students who are now graduate architects with 2-6 years of experience in practice: Kwan Seng (2017), Ameelia Rokhaza'ain (2018), Joo Yin (2019), Raymond Bu (2020), Gan (2021) - M Arch graduating years in the bracket.  Focusing on points of view of the: 1. T...