Talk Architecture
Naziaty Mohd Yaacob is a dedicated Malaysian architect and former associate professor at Universiti Malaya, renowned for her extensive work in universal design and advocacy for disability rights since 1998.
Began in April 2020, hosted by Naziaty, Talk Architecture engaged the listeners with deep conversations and reflections on architecture education and practice.
Episodes
378 episodes
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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35:04
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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26:52
Architecture Design Studio Learning - What Constitutes Failure in Teaching?
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 Dumbin...
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Season 17
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Episode 18
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27:39
The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 3
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 p...
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Season 17
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Episode 17
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26:20
The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 2
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 n...
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Season 17
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Episode 16
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28:12
The Dumbing Down of Architecture Education - Part 1 [Introduction]
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 ...
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Season 17
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Episode 15
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18:22
The MAW Review 2: Awards, Heroes & Pride (Managing Egos)
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". ...
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Season 17
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Episode 14
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19:27
The MAW Review: A Commentary on the Malaysian Architecture Dialogue
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...
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Season 17
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Episode 13
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30:49
Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 2]
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-domina...
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Season 18
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Episode 3
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22:54
Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles [Part 1]
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 i...
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Season 18
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Episode 2
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22:40
Teaser: Conversation with Eleena Jamil on Women Architect in Leadership Roles
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: Archi...
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Season 18
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Episode 2
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10:20
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Introduction - Women in Leadership Roles
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
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Season 18
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Episode 1
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31:55
A Commentary on - Designing for Disability Justice [Part 3]
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.
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Season 15
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Episode 37
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26:29
A Commentary on - Designing for Disability Justice [Part 2]
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.
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Season 15
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Episode 36
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31:16
A Commentary on - Designing for Disability Justice [Part 1]
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.
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Season 15
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Episode 35
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24:59
Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model - Part 2
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' a...
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Season 17
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Episode 12
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35:09
Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model - Part 1
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 particular...
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Season 17
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Episode 11
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24:16
Teaser on a Conversation with Kevin Mark Low on The Balanced Education Model
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 civ...
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Season 17
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Episode 10
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13:35
Form-making in Art and Architecture: The Role of Functionalism and the Bauhaus [Part 1]
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 ...
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Season 17
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Episode 9
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22:21
Form-making in Art and Architecture: Differences and Similarities [Introduction]
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 thi...
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Season 17
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Episode 8
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21:17
The Bauhaus and its influences on current architecture education and practice - Part 3
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 s...
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Season 17
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Episode 7
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27:26
