Talk Architecture

About 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. Subscribe on most available platforms, such as Spotify, Apple Podcast, Buzzsprout, Podcaster, Amazon Music etc.

Publisher

Naziaty Mohd Yaacob

Category

arts · education · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Apr 2020

Latest episode

20 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

438 episodes in the feed.

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   20 Sept 2026

   The Importance of Manual Sketching in Practice - Part 1

   Send us Fan Mail Part 1 - Continuing the conversation on manual sketching in practice. Whatever you do in architecture school, you are preparing for a fast-paced industry where deadlines serve financial goals — and where sketching has quietly become an undervalued skill. What gets lost with it is the architect: the intuition, the authorship, the sense of a building made by someone rather than generated by software. Grant Harris of HB Architecture puts it well across two recent pieces. Drawing...

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   19 Sept 2026

   The Importance of Manual Sketching in Practice - Introduction

   Send us Fan Mail Principals aren't encouraging young architects to sketch any more. What firms hire for is Revit proficiency; sketching has been demoted to a personal plus, useful to the graduate but not asked for by the organisation. So I put the question to a former student of mine, Aminuddin Zakaria — a design architect and BIM lead working on civic and institutional projects at Arkiskape Sdn Bhd — and his answer was blunt. He sees very few graduates sketching in practice, and even experie...

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   7 Sept 2026

   Building Your Own View Point: Reflective Summary on the Use of Precedents

   Send us Fan Mail Remember the second-year student whose lecturers kept saying "I don't like your plan, change it"? They said: in second year we studied the masters, understood the philosophy of their buildings, and applied it to our projects — borrowing viewpoints. But we can't always borrow other people's viewpoints. Copy and paste design. So how do we build a strong foundation of our own viewpoint, and our own critical thinking, through the design studio years? The student also asked about ...

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

13 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 56 / 100

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Quality

82

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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