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Are clients unclear about the word ‘design’ especially in their role as the financier of the residential design project? Are the clients easily influenced by media such as HGTV and Pinterest images and videos on design styles and question the architect’s decision on ‘design’? Does the architect accept this situation and just give the client what they want? 

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The title of this podcast episode was posted by an architect (employer) in a Facebook Group (Private) where most of the members are architects. I have permission to quote from them and expand on this issue of the architectural graduate that could not draw architecture in an architectural practice and suggests that this issue is not uncommon, as verified by a number of employers (commenters on Facebook). 

My suggestion is that the teaching was not done or not done properly in architecture schools, in a worldwide phenomenon, due to many factors, but I wish to focus on one, where: students are / were not designing manually and get to the point where they could design properly, but prematurely learn design with computer aided tools and shortcuts, hence not able to have the necessary skills in design architecture and fulfilling expectations of that particular skill.

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Focusing on architecture education and why it is important that the process of imagining and visioning a design and putting it out as a drawing, or model with a strong description and narrative (essential keywords) is the key to starting being an architect. In a previous episode, we touched upon 'architecture and reality' and what is real. In this episode, we argue that 'drawings are reality' as it is depicted from the mind. Drawings make it real, even if it is not yet built. As long as it is in the mind it is still dreaming, a vision yet to be realised but it is still a reality.
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Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 132, “Environmental Hypocrisy” on an academic who talks about sustainability but does not practice sustainability, hence a hypocrite. 

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Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 116, “Crediting Coworkers” on the issue of the principal or director of the company not acknowledging the architect responsible for doing the job as "the means to an end", rather than "the ends themselves" as per Immanuel Kant. 

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Reading and commentary on a section by Thomas Fischer’s (2010) Ethics for Architects- page 118, “Accommodating Disabilities” on the dilemma of hiring a person with disabilities to be their employee in an architecture company. 

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In conjunction with the coming general election in my country where corruption issues have been reported, it is time to discuss this topic to ask the question of the word ‘corrupt’ and how it is interpreted in architecture practice and education. Purely a personal interpretation quoting a 'religious text' with regard to what is transactional in the right way.

©️Talk Architecture 2022, author Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): Post-election demands by disabled activists at Taman Jaya July 2018 by Ahmad Zaldarriaga Sadain.

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When you commit your vision to paper, you have transported your dreams into reality. For a student of architecture, drawing your vision and what you visualize is real. There is a process of discovery from this exercise even though it is not built, what more for an architect who builds their vision. 

©️Talk Architecture 2022, author Naziaty Mohd Yaacob. Photo (artwork): Wong Chiang Her’s interim drawings for the design thesis 2019-20

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We continue with the idea of the architect where in the past, the architect is given the exclusive role to lead the project from beginning to completion. However, at present, this is not necessarily so, depending on the type of project and contract, the architect may only be involved in parts / certain phases of the project. This episode touches on that idea of a 'master builder' taken from the last episode and article by Brennan, and as a reminder of what an architect once was. Other discussions include the perceptions that a mid-level architect may have when the idea of the architect is not the same as before. Will disillusionment and disappointment prevail and make the architect quit his/her career?
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This is a commentary and reading of Joseph Brennan's article published in September 2021 published on medium.com. (Article link below). The overall idea is for Brennan to introduce "Digital practice for architects: a manual". In the first article, I referred to the first article: " The challenges facing architecture", where quote: To rethink architecture, we must first examine the enormous challenges that are currently facing our industry. Brennan raised a number of points similar to what Dami Lee discussed on her YouTube video channel on "Everything you need to know before you start architecture", like working in a team, complexities of working with other consultants, budget, specialization, licensure etc. These aspects are important to consider on the issues that we had been discussing on this podcast recently.

Article link - Brennan

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