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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 everywhe
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Signup to Generate a PitchHosted 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.
Talk Architecture is hosted by Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. The show has published 443 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Teaching Quality Spatial Design in the Studio (Part 2) - What Works!" (25 October 2026, 20 minutes), "Teaching Quality Spatial Design in the Studio (Part 1) - What Went Wrong?" (25 October 2026, 26 minutes), and "Senior-Friendly Housing in Malaysia: Beyond Multigenerational Units - Part 1" (18 October 2026, 31 minutes).
Talk Architecture publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 24 minutes across 443 episodes.
Booking probability for Talk Architecture is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Talk Architecture requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Talk Architecture's contact route on record: public web form.
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Naziaty Mohd Yaacob hosts Talk Architecture, an arts podcast with 443 episodes published.
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Episode #21
Send us Fan Mail The educator’s answer to Part 1, and it comes from Porto. At FAUP — the school shaped by Fernando Távora, Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura — spatial intuition isn’t treated as a mystical gift but...
Episode #20
Send us Fan Mail Why is there such a lack of quality in spatial design among architecture students? I’ve watched this for a decade, and the research is clear that it isn’t a shortage of talent — it’s a systemic shift in...
Episode #19
Send us Fan Mail **Senior-friendly housing in Malaysia needs to move beyond multigenerational units to support true ageing in place.** The episode challenges the assumption that most elderly parents will live with adult...
Episode #18
Send us Fan Mail We explore accessibility for seniors in Malaysian housing, drawing from a May 2026 Edge Malaysia article on " designing and retrofitting senior-friendly environments" . As Malaysia heads toward becoming...
Episode #17
Send us Fan Mail Further exploration on the conversations on the enduring value of manual sketching / hand drawing in contemporary architectural practice, drawing on insightful responses from a decade-old Quora...
Episode #16
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...
Episode #15
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...
Episode #14
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...
Episode #13
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, host Naziaty addresses a second-year student’s setback after receiving harsh, unguided feedback—“I don’t like your plan. Please change”—that left him doubting the entire design process...
Episode #12
Send us Fan Mail I used to think designing in school and designing in practice were two different worlds. In this episode I argue the opposite: schools of architecture need to teach the same design process students will...
Episode #11
Send us Fan Mail The Design Process is Crucial to understand by tutors and students. Continuing the Q&A sparked by a listener's comments on my YouTube series, this episode tackles a question every student of...
Episode #10
Send us Fan Mail Malaysia is debating the repeal of the Universities and University Colleges Act 1971, and I want to go further: abolish AUKU, and abolish the MQA with it. Speaking as a former academic who felt the...
Episode #9
Send us Fan Mail Most buildings and workplaces are built around one narrow prototype of how a person should communicate, learn and behave — and that choice stops looking like a choice once it becomes the standard...
Episode #8
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Naziaty shares deep concerns about the future of architecture education, drawing from the Substack article and recent discussions on AI literacy. They critique the International Union...
Episode #7
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Naziaty unpacks the triangle that drives her accessibility startup: business, governance, and grassroots working together to fix what Malaysia's legislation still won't. We trace the...
Episode #6
Send us Fan Mail A follow up from an earlier podcast but the real title is based on a blog post - "Designing for Every Citizen: What a Wheelchair, a Bus Ramp, and a Fence Taught Me About Malaysia’s Streets". It also...
Episode #2
Send us Fan Mail In this reflective “filler” episode of Talk Architecture, host Naziaty opens up about a personal contradiction: as a teenager scared of maths, yet fell in love with architecture — the technical details...
Episode #5
Send us Fan Mail Host Naziaty, a disability activist from 1998 to 2024, opens this first episode by tracing the deep, two-way relationship between disability and architecture in the Malaysian context — a story that...
Episode #29
Send us Fan Mail In Part 3 and final episode of the Stop Spoon-Feeding Architecture Students series on the Talk Architecture Podcast, host Naziaty explores why many students and graduates remain trapped in their...
Episode #28
Send us Fan Mail Are we creating architecture graduates who can’t think for themselves? In this episode of Talk Architecture, host Naziaty explores the dangers of spoon-feeding in design studios — from ready-made notes...
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