U can check out my website now. xtracooljustin's page

Check da photo gallery, there's a portfolio of my diploma works. There's also some of my works that i did at work. Will upload my recent degree works soon.

according to my fren, the course in UM is conducted 100% in English.

I dun think your education path has any problems but if you really need to confirm anything, its best to email Ar Hamdan Abdul Jamal of PAM, who is the Chairman of Education Committee PAM.

He'll give you more advices regarding architecture education.

He can be reached at info@pam.org.my.

is this UCS refering to University College Sedaya? If it is their main campus in Cheras also offers architecture. Try checking out their website at UCSI

u guys might wanna check out Twintech University of Technology. The architecture degree used to be awarded by UTM as the course is conducted according to UTM curriculum and syllabus, but im not sure the franchise has been renewed or terminated.

doesnt matter really. We hav students from art stream and science stream. But wat schools are looking for, are balanced students, science students wif artistic flair or art students who are technically competent.

Those who speak good english will have a slight advantage.

This post has been edited by xtracooljustin: Dec 16 2006, 12:05 PM

that list on the Uni Melb is not very comprehensive. Advanced standings are on a case by case basis. Other polytechnics or even Diplomas from UTM, UITM are also given advanced standings.

A Diploma from UTM are sometimes given 2.5 years off as well depending on your portfolio. University of Auckland gave me 3 years off for their degree program.

if wat ur saying is true, UTM KL's Rm7800 for 3 years is quite cheap. Y not opt for UTM KL where u hav evything in the country's capital?

So many advantages of being in da capital. Big public transport system, lots of architect offices around plus being central means you have more choices on potential sites.

And u were lamenting about the lack of entertainment i believe...

chances are higher?? where u get ur info from??

My frens who were once in UTM doing Diploma, had so such problem continuing their degree studies in any university in Australia.

Well, since u've alredi enrolled, dun wan to discourage you but just merely correcting ur facts for the benefit of other ppl in this thread.

Cheers and enjoy ur studies.

This is Prof Tajuddin's latest article in the Sunday Star.

Building Democracy

Im currently doing a study on Luxury Apartments and what makes them tick and appeal to the wealthiest of buyers.

I have singled out and will be focusing on Singapore, in particular the Marina Bay residences with the top of the range 10000sq feet penthouse unit going for almost S$20mil. A big chunk of my studies will also be focussed on luxury lifestyle and living.

Anybody wif an opinion on this please contribute. Would like to hear from you guys.

This post has been edited by xtracooljustin: Dec 30 2006, 02:55 PM

ur design work for one. Contrary to popular belief, design takes a couple of critique sessions which would span a couple of weeks to churn out da best design you could come up with.

After you have a final scheme, to develop and produce the architectural drawings for your design will take another couple of weeks.

We just had our AGM.

As usual speeches bla bla bla and installation of the new comittee for the Architech Society.

By da way, our latest project's site is at Malacca, near Jalan Bunga Raya and Jalan Hang Tuah. 10acres and our brief is to develop a masterplan of a medium rise housing.

I used to be paid Rm1800 when i was working wif my Diploma. Lucky of me to found a good company actually.

But Singapore pays more. SG pays an average of S$1500-2000 for Diploma TAs and about S$2500-3K for graduate architects.

All these figures depend mainly on your portfolio, capabilities and what you can offer to the firm.

Shaari used to be an archi student in UTM. He is now a Prof and head of Department of Architecture at UM.

I think he has his own practise now.

This is from PAM if ur interested.

SAARI OMAR ARCHITECT
Address : A-2-2, Sri Intan Kondominium Business Centre
No. 17, Lengkok Selingsing, Off Bt 5, Jalan Ipoh
51200 Kuala Lumpur



I know its hard being the boyfriend/girlfriend of architecture students. This course always puts burden on relationships. Having another architecture student as ur partner is much better as he or she understands the pressure and workload.

REVIT is a very good software from Autodesk. I've toyed wif the software once and found it quite interesting to use but the software lacks the tools to make more creative 3d models. U build models in REVIT, and placements of each door, windows and components are marked by the program and you can generate 2D working drawings from the software easily. Its cuts time if your design is very simple and not too complex.

Basically a design exercise can last anywhere from 6-9 weeks, mayb longer for more complex projects.

Although we are continously improving our design all the time, we must know when to draw the line to stop and say enough is enough. If not, any other addition or alteration to ur design, you'll have to alter the corresponding drawings etc.

If you think moving the staircase looks easy in plan, wait til you have to draw the other plans, and alter the sections as well. So there must be a line where we stop altering our design, and continue to work wif the best design so far til submission date.

most of us do our works using PC but there are one or 2 who are still doing it the manual way.

For our design, usually we start off wif a rough sketch of our idea. We will usually continue to develop our design on paper til we reach a stage where both students and lecturer are confident enough that we can develop further on that particular design scheme.

then we'll translate that design in the PC and develop further from then on til its completion.

All those home improvements shows on TV are seriously really for those housewives and those not architecture inclined but would like to do some DIY home improvements.

I rather spend my time watching animes, car videos, CSI, Nat Geo and Discovery Channel.

I think i draw my inspiration checking out other architect's works.

not enough land? well guess what, Singapore is reclaiming more land from the sea, so ask that guy to eat his words.

if architects cant build horizontally, then we go vertically!

Architects are also needed when u are doing some major renovation in your house to sign the papers for submission to the authorities. Not all architects are based in urban areas, but cities are where architects get most of their jobs and clients.

Unless ur lucky enough to land the government tender to build a city in a undeveloped place in East Malaysia.

This post has been edited by xtracooljustin: Jan 22 2007, 05:24 PM

kinda wish u had a Death Note to get rid of these ppl and budding, annoying coursemates who have potential to be a rival architect to you.

wua ha ha...

healthy competition is alrite. But like Azarimy has said before, the biggest headache is a designer working together wif another designer. Evyone wan to have it their way.

Thats how it goes la. Some will be contributing more in group work, some less but end up same grade. Thats y some ppl really phobia work together in a group.