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.
Podcasting since 2020 • 374 episodes
Talk Architecture
Latest Episodes
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
