Talk Architecture
Hosted by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, Ph.D.
Malaysian Architect | Universal Design & Accessibility Expert (MS 1184 Specialist) | Former Associate Professor (28+ years) | Advocate for Inclusive Spaces & Women in Architecture
Launched in April 2020, Talk Architecture delivers intimate, reflective conversations on architecture education, practice, and human impact—hosted solely by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Rooted in Malaysia yet resonating globally, the podcast connects local insights with universal challenges faced by architects worldwide.
Every episode centres inclusivity, empathy, and equity, drawing on Naziaty’s expertise in universal design, ageing-in-place, sensory architecture, and professional well-being. Global listeners value candid critiques of education models, graduate employability hurdles, and practice realities.
Essential listening for architecture students, professionals, educators, and thought leaders everywhere who are shaping inclusive, resilient built environments in an era of technological and demographic change.
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Episodes
398 episodes
The Undervalued Architect: How Education Fuels the Profession's Misunderstanding - Part 2
We dive into the conversation on "reforms in architecture education" to understand further how education affects the profession in a profound way. The principles from Mark Alan Hewitt's 2020 reforms explained in arch daily —emphasizing embodied...
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Season 20
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Episode 8
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24:40
The Undervalued Architect: How Education Fuels the Profession's Misunderstanding - Part 1
Another “unfiltered” critic argues that architecture education is the root cause of the profession being undervalued and widely misunderstood. The defense of the profession, we contend, must begin in academia, where the core problem lies in sit...
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Season 20
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Episode 7
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27:29
What makes a good studio master ?
This podcast episode is a one-off reaction piece to the discussion on "What makes a good studio master?" It refers to the Malaysian Architecture Education context and the premise from the problem of bureaucracy. The assertion here a...
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Season 20
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Episode 6
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28:35
Architecture Education: Progressive Facade, Corporate Factory
Architecture education and the problems of competent graduates have been discussed elsewhere in Talk Architecture podcast, but this topic shows how much things have changed in architecture education and how it affected the curriculum.So,...
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Season 20
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Episode 5
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17:18
The Myth of the Research Framework in Design Theses - Part 3 (Conclusion)
The “research-framework” approach to design theses is a myth and must end.Best industry preparation: give the entire studio one real, complex, shared urban site and force students to solve 10–15 genuine, layered design problems...
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Season 20
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Episode 4
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25:57
The Myth of the Research Framework in Design Theses - Part 2
In the second part of this three-part series on the “context specificity” approach, we explain a design thesis studio philosophy that insists on “real site + real community issues only,” with the focus placed on identifying and solving authenti...
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Season 20
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Episode 3
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25:30
The Myth of the Research Framework in Design Theses - Part 1
For a design thesis, context specificity approach is the answer, the only way to get students of architecture to be ready, equipped, going into the architecture industry because that's the way the industry works. There is no place for speculati...
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Season 20
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Episode 2
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19:48
Why Research Framework cannot be used in Architectural Design - an Introduction.
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 wro...
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Season 20
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Episode 1
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25:08
A Recap on Sensory-driven Architecture Principles for Disabled Persons Specifically
The seven principles of sensory-driven architecture, which focus on engaging human senses to create meaningful and immersive built environments, are often derived from the broader concepts of sensory design. 1. Sight (Visual Engagem...
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Season 19
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Episode 2
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17:27
The Use of Sensory-driven Architecture Principles to Achieve Inclusive & Therapeutic Spaces [Part 2]
The concluding part (Part 2) of this proposition of using sensory-driven architecture principles to achieve inclusive and therapeutic spaces as explained by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, is based on a research to combine architecture, disability and phe...
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Season 19
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Episode 1
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23:11
The Use of Sensory-driven Architecture Principles to Achieve Inclusive & Therapeutic Spaces [Part 1]
A new season on Sensory-driven Architecture principles and ideas.The first part of this proposition of using sensory-driven architecture principles to achieve inclusive and therapeutic spaces as explained by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob, started ...
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Season 19
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Episode 1
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29:26
Conversation with Lillian Tay on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]
The Concluding Part [Part 2] of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Lillian Tay discusses a variety of issues from gender roles in taking care of children and the challenges to women architects who decided to start a family,...
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Season 18
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Episode 15
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37:09
Conversation with Lillian Tay on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]
In Part 1 of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Lillian Tay discusses on a wide range of issues regarding women architects, starting out in the beginning, the role of women in general, whether there is discrimination in arc...
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Season 18
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Episode 14
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26:13
Teaser: Conversation with Lillian Tay on Women Architect in Leadership Roles
A Teaser introduction on a conversation with Ar. Lillian Tay in the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles. (Part 1 & 2 - coming soon.)Bio: Ar. Lillian Tay is the Vice President of Veritas Design Group, est. 1987. She was...
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Season 18
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Episode 13
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7:57
Conversation with Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]
The Concluding Part [Part 2] of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim discusses on how younger women architects need to find that balance in their profession, flexibility arrangements with your boss, ha...
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Season 18
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Episode 12
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32:05
Is being an architect worth it?
Commentary on the article entitled "Being an architect isn't worth it" says commenter published on 15 August 2025.Naziaty Mohd Yaacob argued that the connection to bridging the gap between architecture education and practice is to breakd...
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Season 17
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Episode 20
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9:57
Conversation with Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]
In Part 1 of the series on Women Architects in Leadership Roles, Ar. Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim discusses on networking at top management level, advice when fresh graduates started out in employment, stepping out of the comfort zone and keep on ch...
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Season 18
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Episode 11
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18:14
Teaser: Conversation with Almaz Salma Abdul Rahim on Women Architect in Leadership Roles
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...
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Season 18
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Episode 10
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6:27
Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]
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, ...
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Season 18
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Episode 9
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38:50
Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]
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 u...
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Season 18
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Episode 8
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19:45
Teaser: Conversation with Cheryl Quan on Women Architect in Leadership Roles
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 arch...
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Season 18
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Episode 7
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9:59
Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]
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 c...
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Season 18
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Episode 6
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34:28
Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]
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, ha...
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Season 18
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Episode 5
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22:21
Teaser: Conversation with Aisyah Razin on Women Architect in Leadership Roles
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, co...
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Season 18
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Episode 4
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10:26
Why architecture graduates don’t know how to sketch and solve problems on the spot?
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”.<...
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Season 17
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Episode 19
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26:16
