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Talk Architecture

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Send us a text For Architecture Academics, a special podcast on: Why Research Framework cannot be used in Architectural Design, specifically in the Architecture Studio Design Thesis Curriculum. An introduction to a topic addressing what is currently wrong with the way we teach architecture in universities where research and publication becomes increasingly important and how we have lost our way in producing credible architecture graduates. Refer to the link below on a previous Facebook post (...

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Send us a text For Architecture Academics, a special podcast on: Why Research Framework cannot be used in Architectural Design, specifically in the Architecture Studio Design Thesis Curriculum. An introduction to a topic addressing what is currently wrong with the way we teach architecture in universities where research and publication becomes increasingly important and how we have lost our way in producing credible architecture graduates. Refer to the link below on a previous Facebook post (...

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Teaser: Conversation with Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim on Women Architect in Leadership Roles

Send us a text A Teaser introduction on a conversation with Ar. Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim in the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles. (Part 1 & 2 - coming soon.) Bio: Ar. Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim, Managing Director of Almaz Architect Sdn Bhd. Throughout her 41 years of experience in the industry, she has been involved in over 250 design works in Malaysia winning awards. She was the convenor of Singgah KL, a Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia (PAM) event in 2025 promoting the archit...

1 day ago

6 minutes

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Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]

Send us a text The Concluding Part [Part 2] of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Cheryl Quan discusses about the issues women architects face when "maternity leave" happens amongst other issues, the role of the institutions such as PAM, and more detailed deliberations on the Malaysian Architecture Week (MAW) and the awareness needed to get the public to know about the architect's role and function in society. Bio: Ar. Cheryl Quan is the principal of Cheryl Quan Architect...

1 week ago

39 minutes

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Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]

Send us a text In Part 1 of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Cheryl Quan discusses about her experiences and challenges in her practice and recounted how she struggled in the beginning when there were clear gender-based biases she was up against. As one of the main curator of the recent exhibition and talks in conjunction with the Malaysian Architecture Week (MAW), after a seven year sabbatical, she found confidence again to be part of the architecture fraternity and co...

2 weeks ago

19 minutes

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Teaser: Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles

Send us a text A Teaser introduction on a conversation with Ar Cheryl Quan in the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles. (Part 1 & 2 - coming soon.) Bio: Ar. Cheryl Quan is the principal of Cheryl Quan Architect and partner in OTCQ architects, a practice focused on responsive, community-driven, and environmentally conscious design. She was named one of the 40 Under 40 Emerging Architects in 2023. Known for her material sensitivity and a willingness to embrace experimental approac...

3 weeks ago

9 minutes

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Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]

Send us a text 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 lined-up. © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image contributed by Ar. Aisyah Razin Graphite P...

3 weeks ago

35 minutes

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Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]

Send us a text 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 on this matter. Bio: Ar. Aisyah Razin is an emerging Malaysian architect redefining leadership wit...

3 weeks ago

22 minutes

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Teaser: Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles

Send us a text 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 range of architectural works, with recent focus on high-rise residential developments - balancing de...

3 weeks ago

10 minutes

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Why architecture graduates don’t know how to sketch and solve problems on the spot?

Send us a text 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 design problems from the very beginning and how the architecture curriculum failed to uphold the ba...

1 month ago

26 minutes

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Architecture Design Studio Learning - What Constitutes Failure in Teaching?

Send us a text 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 "Failure in Teaching Architecture Design". Specifically the disappointment in not helping students and gradua...

1 month ago

27 minutes

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The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 3

Send us a text 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 architecture education' that is happening right now. © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image of '...

1 month ago

26 minutes

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The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 2

Send us a text 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 what is one of the most glaring problem in architecture education - the lack of feeling and knowing what an architec...

1 month ago

28 minutes

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The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 1 [Introduction]

Send us a text 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 Disciplines". I copied this quote: This panel discussion seeks to explore innovative ways to bridge disciplinary boundaries...

1 month ago

18 minutes

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The MAW Review 2: Awards, Heroes & Pride (Managing Egos)

Send us a text Expanding on the last episode on The MAW Review: A Commentary on the Malaysian Architecture DialogueLet'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 architecture industry and although it is not the main part of the conversation, much of it has to happen some how. A lot have been said about "awards", and...

1 month ago

19 minutes

Talk Architecture

The MAW Review: A Commentary on the Malaysian Architecture Dialogue

Send us a text 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 my review on the event and other thoughts. © 2025 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Image ...

1 month ago

30 minutes

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Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]

Send us a text 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 to better serve the industry. More podcasts on this topic coming soon with interviews lined-up. © 2025 Talk A...

2 months ago

22 minutes

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Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]

Send us a text 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 in architecture? Tune in to find out more and do give your opinion / feedback on what you thin...

2 months ago

22 minutes

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Teaser: Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles

Send us a text 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 among other things, about gender roles, work-life balance and advice on how to negotiate the male-domin...

2 months ago

10 minutes

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Introduction - Women in Leadership Roles

Send us a text 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 RolesLINK Mila Smart Semeshkina (the author of the article) proposed there topics: 1. Gender Bias; 2. Lack of Role Models; 3. Work-Life Balance; 4. Stereotypes and Expectations; and 5. Limited Access to Networks and Opportunities This podcast episode is provid...

3 months ago

31 minutes

Talk Architecture

A Commentary on - Designing for Disability Justice [Part 1]

Send us a text 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 lamp by the author. Graphite ProGRAPHITE is a platform for creatives and trailblazers aiming to elevate their ...

4 months ago

24 minutes

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A Commentary on - Designing for Disability Justice [Part 2]

Send us a text 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 foyer by the author. Graphite ProGRAPHITE is a platform for creatives and trailblazers aiming to elevate the...

4 months ago

31 minutes