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JOHOR BAHRU 14 Jun- Permintaan tinggi terhadap kerjaya arkitek dan tawaran yang baik menyebabkan ramai lulusan jurusan berkenaan tidak melepaskan peluang bekerja di luar negara.

Tindakan itu sedikit sebanyak menjadi punca kekurangan jumlah tenaga kerja profesional tersebut di negara ini dan jumlahnya tidak selari dengan keperluan negara yang sedang pesat membangun.

Menurut Timbalan Presiden Pertubuhan Arkitek Malaysia, Ar. Saifuddin Ahmad, negara ini melahirkan jumlah lulusan jurusan senibina yang berkualiti sehingga mendapat permintaan tinggi untuk mengisi pasaran kerja di luar negara.

“Kebanyakan lepasan universiti tempatan mencari peluang kerja di Singapura dan Timur Tengah. Malah, siswazah yang menuntut di luar negara juga cenderung untuk bekerja di sana berbanding balik ke Malaysia.

“Kekurangan tersebut turut ditambah dengan bilangan mereka yang lulus peperiksaan senibina tahap ketiga juga adalah kecil,” katanya selepas merasmikan Bengkel Senibina ke-23 anjuran penuntut senibina Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) di sini, semalam.

Turut hadir, Dekan Fakulti Alam Bina UTM, Prof. Madya Dr. Ahmad Nazri Muhamad Ludin.

Program yang bermula kelmarin dan berakhir Jumaat ini mengetengahkan tema Terang 2011 menyaksikan penglibatan seramai 400 peserta daripada 21 institusi pengajian tinggi seluruh negara.

Saifuddin berkata, universiti tempatan juga melahirkan jumlah lulusan senibina yang sedikit jika dibandingkan dengan negara maju lain.

“Tetapi harus diingat bahawa biarpun jumlahnya sedikit, mereka adalah golongan yang berkualiti, cuma masalahnya adalah jumlahnya tidak mencukupi apatah lagi dengan pembangunan pesat yang dikecapi negara pada masa ini,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Ahmad Nazri berkata, setiap tahun UTM hanya melahirkan kira-kira 80 siswazah senibina.

Menurutnya, jumlah tersebut dikurangkan daripada 100 kepada 80 orang bagi menjaga kualiti graduan supaya sesuai dengan pasaran kerja dan selaras dengan kehendak negara dalam melahirkan modal insan kelas pertama.

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Yes, it’s finally ours. After UKM’s Archustic a week ago, the 23rd Architectural Workshop in 2011 will be hosted by UTM Skudai in collaboration with UTM KL. Venue will likely be in Skudai as UTM KL will still be undergoing construction works by June next year. Theme is still open for suggestions.

There are 27 architectural schools in Malaysia to date, and we plan to invite them all. Not only that, we’re thinking of inviting architectural schools from neighbouring countries as well, including Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia and Brunei.

Updates will be coming soon!

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Are you ready for the next installment of the Architectural Workshop? It’s finally knocking at our doorsteps. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia will be hosting this year with Taylor’s College and International University College of TwinTech. Visit their Facebook page (by clicking the image above) to contact the organizers and see the fun and joy they’re cooking up.

Discuss about the workshop here.

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http://www.openoffice.org

Yes, you read that right! OpenOffice is an open source alternative to Microsoft Office, delivered to you with free open license. I’ve started using it for a couple of days, and from what I can see, it can do exactly the entire Microsoft Office Suite can. Of course, certain features are propriety to Microsoft, but being open source, it means third party could create application or add new features that could simply be integrated into you application.

The application suite includes:

1. Writer – equivalent to Word. Could use any Word document files, template and so on.
2. Calc – equivalent to Excel.
3. Draw – almost comparable to CorelDraw or any graphics editing software. Basically a doped up version of Microsoft Paint.
4. Impress – equivalent to Powerpoint.
5. Base – a database processing/management application (which I doubt we’d ever use).

I’ve started using it, and it seems a great alternative to Microsoft Office. It has garnered support from the open community, and have been commended in several computer magazines. Consider me converted!

Now, I know students don’t usually have much money to spend on software (ahem!), especially in these dark days. At the same time, as an academic community, we preach originality and respect over copyright ownership. Now we have a great alternative to Microsoft Office at no cost at all! I urge students to try this application and report back to me. If successful, I would recommend the department to move towards this application right away.

We already utilized free Google Sketchup. Now free OpenOffice. If only the Draw application could rival CorelDraw or Adobe Illustrator, all we need to buy is Microsoft Windows.

Download and install it now. Only 142MB.

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Finally, the eagerly awaited sequel to the 2005 “Alternative” Design Folio is here!

‘A’ for Architecture, an alternative book: Design Thesis Folio 2007

Editors: Ab. Razak Rahman, Syed Ahmad Iskandar Syed Ariffin & Ang Chee Seng
Publisher: Penerbit UTM Press, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

If you’ve seen the first alternative book, you wont be disappointed with this one. It is more of a review of selected thesis rather than just a catalogue/showcase collection. Would be a great source if you would like to know what UTM architectural students have been up to lately.

If you’re interested, get it from En. Hazazi (UTM Skudai) or reply in the thread provided in the link below. We can arrange for postage/delivery. Alternatively, those in KL should be able to find this book in UTM KL soon.
The price is RM55.00, on sale now! Current UTM students can get discounts. Discuss or arrange a purchase here.

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Augmenting the Design Studio with Tanggam: Pilot Study

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Penang, June 17^th: A group of architecture students from the Science and Technology College (KST), UTM City Campus managed to top the Malaysian Architecture Jamboree design competition for the second time in a row in two years at the 20^th Architecture jamboree, TRANXXIT University Sains Malayia (USM), Penang.

Aizat Amir Hasrat, Vincent Lai and Wong Zhi Shen, second year students won the first place for the design category while Atta Indrawani, a third year student won the first place for the multimedia category. The competition is an annual event in occasition with the ‘Alam Bina Week’ held at USM on June 12^th.   More than 20 delegations from IPTA’s and Polytechnics took part in the jamboree. KST were represented by 20 students led Iziq Eafifi along with their Mentor Lecturer, Norhayuri Abdul Hadi and Kamarul Ariffin A. Kadir. This is the second success in the same categories. In 2007, KST UTM won the same categories at the International Islamic University of Malaysia.

Team KST UTM was also announced the runner-up for best performance and best male actor in the Intervarsity Culture Night during the event.

Read more or discuss about the TRANXXIT workshop here.

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Skudai, 23rd March: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia’s (UTM) architecture student has been declared top prize winner in the Just Jerusalem Competition, an international competition organized by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

The result was announced at MIT on March 21st and released simultaneously on the competition official website. Just Jerusalem was an open global competition attempted at seeking ideas and proposals that addressed different aspects of urban life in a futurist Jerusalem. The news was announced by the Vice Chancellor, Tan Sri Datuk Ir. Dr. Mohd Zulkifli bin Tan Sri Mohd Ghazali, in his officially address during the 40th Convocation held at UTM Skudai campus today.

Initially a total of 1,150 people from 85 countries registered for the competition. Eventually only 125 eligible proposals were accepted by the organizer which later undergone review by world-class panel of jury convened at MIT. Among the nine-member jury were Suha Ozkan and Herman Hertzberger, both a well-known scholars and architects.

Chan Wai Lai, a senior architecture student decided to take up the competition as her final year Design Thesis project at beginning of the academic session. She hoped and aspired to see Jerusalem as city of peace through the idea of sharing. In her project abstract, she elaborated,

“Without raising awareness of the need for sharing, energies devoted to constructing iconic architecture or designing beautiful buildings do not make sense. To achieve new and true peace, we must solve the problems of man, not of buildings, facilities or land division — because all these problems come from man alone.”

As an expression of hope for future Jerusalem she adopted “Children’s Village for Jerusalem” as the title for her competition entry. It is in the children that she hoped the future community of peace would be nurtured and raised out of a built environment that she have designed, and hopefully in the end the proposed dwelling environment would help to address social equality and harmony among citizenry of Jerusalem.

As top winner she will be given the opportunity to spend up to an academic semester in residence at MIT as Jerusalem Visionary Fellow, with all expenses paid, including travel, housing, and stipend. It is estimated that a total amount USD50,000 been allocated for her appointment as visionary fellow.

As visionary fellow she will engage in interdisciplinary discussion about the implementation of the ideas. Throughout her stay at MIT, she will be participating in university seminars and workshops with faculty and invited dignitaries to work towards the implementation of their design ideas.

The Design Thesis is a two-semester long final year design project, a core course in architecture degree programme. Like other students of her peer, Ms. Chan Wai Lai is expected to submit the project to Department of Architecture at end of this semester as part fulfillment of the degree requirements.

She undertook the competition design project under the tutelage of a supervisory panel consisting of Abdul Halim Hussien, Ar. Marzuki Mahadi, and headed by Professor Dr. Mohamad Tajuddin Mohamad Rasdi.

Head of Architecture Department, Assoc. Prof. Dr Syed Ahmad Iskandar Syed Ariffin highlighted that for the past few years UTM have witnessed architecture students winning handful number of national and international awards.

The awards are in many ways a form of recognition of architecture degree programme at UTM and to the highly dedicated and caliber academic staff and students. The community of staff and students at Department of Architecture, Faculty of Built Environment is proud to be able to once again raise national and UTM flags at international stage.

Prepared by Head of Architecture Department.

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