Talk Architecture
Naziaty Mohd Yaacob is a dedicated Architecture Educator & Universal Design Advocate & Consultant with 28 Years of Academic Experience.
Began in April 2020, hosted by Naziaty, Talk Architecture engaged the listeners with deep conversations and reflections on architecture education and practice.
2025 series on "disability and architecture" and "women in architecture".
Episodes
396 episodes
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
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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27:03
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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25:44
