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Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 27 - Olympic and its Architecture, Adaptive Reuse or Redesign?We are back in the brand new season of 2022! We will talking about the olympics and its architecture. 2022-02-141h 01Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 26 – “Squid Game” after thoughts, META and NFTIn this episode, we can talk about squid game because Matt have finally watched them, some spoiler alert for those who haven’t watched! FYI, it’s still probably on the top 10 list of Netflix globally. Other than that, last month Facebook announce they will rebrand their company to META. On the video introduction of Facebook, they introduced virtual reality spaces where people could easily meetup, “Ready Player One” by Steven Spielberg seems to be one of the reference. But, in the architecture world, presenting our ideas via VR isn’t something new anymore, share you thoughts with us! @Architoodo2021-11-2249 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 25 – Architecture in Movies“Squid Game” has taken the world by storm, being top 1 on Netflix for at least 90 countries. Everyone has been talking about it, but what fascinating is some part of its architecture inside the movie. These same goes with some other movies, such as “Parasite” which won the Oscar Best Pictures in 2020, the simple residential housing talks a lot about an architecture and even people go in-depth to study that house in the movie. The marvel franchise, Avengers has many scenes in Berlin where we actually visited these place. Architecture plays a big role of creating the appropriate atmosphere and settings...2021-10-181h 00Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 24 – How do you define your design concept?Concept is defined as an idea or a principle that is connected with something, according to Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries. As a designer or creative creator, do you think by explaining your design concept is essential to express your ideas or outcome? Share your experiences or thoughts on our social media @architoodora.2021-09-2059 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 23 – Malaysian Architects & Malaysia Independence Day! (31st Aug 1957)Hari Merdeka! It means Independence Day for Malaysia! We always randomly mentioned some Malaysian architects, but we haven’t really introduce them in a proper episode, which we think this week episode is the wonderful timing! Many well know local architects, such as Ken Yeang, Hijjas Kasturi, Baharuddin Kassim, Kevin Mark Low, Ng Sek San, WHBC Architects, Jimmy Lim CS, Tan Loke Mun and etc. We had a lot in mind but one episode is definitely not enough to mention all! All these Malaysian architects contributed in the architecture industry of Malaysia, and shaping a kind of Malaysian Architecture in...2021-09-051h 04
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 22 - Talking about our Architecture InternshipCouldn’t really recall much about our experiences, since its been awhile from that past internship when we were still studying. We talked about our experience in our first encounter of architecture internship, some hardship, good experiences and some office that we wished to do internship back then when we were in university. What about your story? Share your story with us!2021-08-2354 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 21 - Floods, Climate Change and Resilience ArchitectureFor the past month, unusual flooding disaster has been happening around the world. In both Europe and China had been facing the deadliest disaster, at least for the past century. In terms of architecture, the resilience way of designing buildings and planning the cityscape played an important role to encounter when the natural disaster comes again. Which we had no power to stop the mother nature, but finding a way to avoid deaths and also reduce the damages that caused during the disaster.Let’s all pray, be safe and stay healthy.2021-08-091h 06Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 20 - Too Much Architecture?Share with us your first thought in mind as you see this title! I bet there is one in your mind! But, just a disclaimer that the whole episode content is only our personal preference and comments toward the building that we mentioned, you might think otherwise. In this episode, we had mentioned a plenty of keywords, such as Arte in Mont Kiara, Malaysia, Hotel Grand Lisboa and Studio City in Macau, Dancing House in Prague, so called “Pants” Building and etc. We kinda discuss about why do we think these building might be overly designed or somehow out of cont...2021-07-201h 03Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 19 - House Renovation ft. Kee Aun @keeauntiewThis week episode is we have a special guest with us! Kee Aun(@keeauntiew) is a sport science lecturer in TAR College, he bought his house in 2020 and got it renovated in the same year. So we will be talking about house renovation, he will share his experience on where he got his inspiration, finding designers and contractors, how he chose the materials, the furniture and etc. For our listeners who recently bought a house, or deciding to renovate your house, this week topic might have some takeaways for you. For more visuals, please look up to Kee Aun’s You...2021-06-2851 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 18 - Architecture in GamingReminiscing the games that we used to play when we were young, “The sims, Sim city, Sonic, Final Fantasy, Rollercoaster tycoon, Dynasty Warrior, Fatal Frame, GTA, PUBG, Overwatch” and more to mention. All these games had very fascinating architecture as the context of settings, where bring us to this week topic; “Architecture in gaming.” As a architect, we design and build buildings in real life. On the other hand, some were building a new world in the dimension of virtual space.2021-06-1458 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 17 - Has your design process in Architecture changed? Since working in the real world and a comparison with academically.This week episode, we discussed about design process in the real life architecture world. In the past episodes, we scheduled our podcast where you actually listen our experience of designing during our study experience, and following our Master’s thesis. In this podcast, we shared our recent years working in the real world, where how design processes has changed comparing academically and “professionally”. At the end of the episode, Yan Jun also shared about him watched a documentary about Brutalism Architecture by DW, and most of the scenes were captured in Berlin, where both of us used to live...2021-05-241h 00Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 16 - New Malaysia School Thesis ProjectHappy Mother’s Day! First of all, I wish all the mothers in the worlds, stay healthy and happy!This week episode, is Matt’s turn to present his thesis project when we were studying together in Dessau, Germany. It’s a very interesting topic, where he start off his thesis project by questioning “how Malaysian Architecture should be?” and how Malaysia schools' architecture could shape ourself as people who lives in our country Malaysia! Lastly, imagine Harry Potter settings in Starwars context and Starwars fighting in Hogwarts!2021-05-091h 12Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 15 - Road of Dreams: Tomorrow 2080 Thesis ProjectThis week, we are presenting our master’s thesis publicly online for the first time. So, Yan Jun will first present his, and following next week will be Matt’s.The title of Yan Jun’s thesis is, Tomorrow 2080; Road of Dreams. Exploring the hidden myth of silk road, venturing into the potential development of Architecture. His studio theme was set up along the silk road, as his lecturer had a few projects along the route. The silk road is also a network trading route connecting the east and west region, back into the history of 2nd BC. Le...2021-04-251h 06Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 14 - Design Process in ArchitectureThis episode is about design process in architectural practice. There are a lot of ways, methods, approaches and neither of us have an exact answer for it. So, we take this opportunity to discuss and understand what kind of thoughts behind our method of design, most likely to take something out from each of us and we might discovered something worth a try to our future ways of designing. In this week news, Matt also mentioned that the first virtual house NFT just sold for more than $500,000, I believe this will leads us to another topic to discuss in...2021-04-191h 07Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 13 - Why don't we build buildings with 3D printing technology?As Yan Jun has mentioned in podcast, one of his friend who works in the Animation industry asked him about 3D printing house, that actually lead us to this episode's topic. Share your thoughts with us, and please feel free to leave your comments on our YouTube page, search by Architoodora.Also, congratulations to Pritzker Prize winner 2021, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal. Their interview on YouTube follow by this link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcT8H0q9-M&ab_channel=ArchDaily2021-03-281h 02Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 12 - Architecture After COVID19 part.2Apparently one episode to talk about post covid architecture is not enough, this episode we try to go in-depth in discussing how can we improve or any solution for the post-covid architecture. In terms of residential, offices, school/education spaces and etc. Shout-out to our Malaysia local artist @redhongyi and our friend @gnuhceehc on their beautiful artpiece.2021-03-141h 03Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 11 - Architecture after COVID19Since the corona virus outbreak happened last year and WHO annouced the pandemic, our lives have never been the same anymore. Early this year 2021, the vaccines have been launched and used on the public. However, what we concerned about are the architecture after COVID19 times, how would it be changed and how do we coupe with it? Join us in the our conversation!2021-03-0158 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 10 - How important is ventilation for a building ft. CNYIt's Chinese New Year! Compare to Northern region of China which experiencing a cold winter season during this festival, Malaysia is as usual undergo one of the hottest season throughout the year. We talked about how ventilation would be so important for a building, and why should we highly adapt them during our design process. Share your thoughts with us as well!2021-02-1549 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 9 - Contemporary vs Traditional Residential ArchitectureThis week, the topic is Matt got inspired by a post he saw online. People were complaining why do we not build contemporary builidings anymore, when we have so much appreciation on it, for instances the gothic, baroque, renaissance archtecture and etc. What are your thoughts on this?2021-01-3144 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 8 - What kind of architectural renderings are you?Back in our academic times, we had tried all sorts of architectural style of renderings, such as photorealistic renderings, collages, montages and etc. Now, that we have to work in this real world, often the only style that most popular is the photorealistic renderings. Let's listen to our this week topic and share your thoughts with us!2021-01-2549 minArchitoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 7 - HSR Cancellation & Transit Oriented Development(TOD)We are back in a brand new season! Sorry for being so delayed :)So this week, we are talking about the recent cancellation of HSR, which is the KL-Singapore Highspeed Rail. Which is supposed to be build to connect Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. How this project actually benefits and what are our views of its cancellation as an architect? Let's hear about it!2021-01-1025 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 6 - Bauhaus MovementSince we are studying Architecture in Germany, we definitely couldn't miss out this interesting topic to talk about, the Bauhaus! Where it's origin is Germany. The researches that I and Matt had gone thru are truly fascinating, how the Bauhaus actually shaped the Germans society, but more importantly, it had influenced us how the design should look like in our time period.2019-05-3128 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 5 - Female's Architect OppressionThis week we talked about female's oppression in the architecture industry, study nor work. In most recent time, we found that only one female star architect that won the Pritzker Architecture Prize, and she is Zaha Hadid. We invited guests to join us in this conversation.2019-05-1428 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 4 - Talking our favourite architects and buildingsSomehow an architect could actually influence in a way of your design thinking and direction, me and Matt have our own favourite architect at this point. They could probably change by time or probably not? We talked a little longer compare to previous episode, and we actually have more. Whenever we share our favourite architect, what kind of architecture thinking they had in mind, and how we can learn from them. Let us know, who is your favourite architect, we would really love to know and hear from you.2019-05-0930 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 3 - Should we restore or redesign Notre Dame?Today episode we will talk about something unfortunate happened recently, which is the fire took place at Notre Dame. Parts of the building were destroyed, and now there are people in the country France, are willing to take out an amount of money and help the restoration of this church. So today our topic, should we redesign or restore Notre Dame?2019-04-2823 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 2 - Malaysia vs Germany Architecture Education (Part 2)Malaysian architecture graduates in graduated in Germany talking about architecture from a student's perspective.2019-04-1623 min
Architoodora : The Architecture PodcastEp 1 - Malaysia vs Germany Architecture Education (Part 1)Malaysian architecture graduates in graduated in Germany talking about architecture from a student's perspective.2019-04-1023 min