Architects are Artists: An Interview with Amna A Emir

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Amna A Emir, designer, architect and mother, and a director at Neuformation, discusses her time at architectural schools UTM and the AA, on the importance of architectural education and practice and how the architect need to realise the importance of creating meaning in their works, like what artists do. The inter-disciplinary discourse at the AA school of architecture, as the place to have the "convergence of a laboratory of thoughts", learning with the critic and diploma unit master, Jeff Kipnis, and being exposed to artists such as Jasper Johns, exploring the theme of "impermanence in phenomena", Amna realised the importance of conveying a "sense of meaning" in architecture, where we also learn from many artists and the idea of authenticity. From theory to practice and back, touching on the design studio learning, we hope that this podcast will give us some ideas on this topic of "Architects are Artists". 
Quote, by Jasper Johns: "Make something, a kind of object, which as it changes or falls apart (dies as it were) or increases in its parts (grows as it were) offers no clue as to what its state or form or nature was at any previous time. Physical and Metaphysical. Obstinacy. Could this be a useful object?"
-- quoted in “Jasper Johns, Writings, sketchbook Notes"
© 2021 Talk Architecture, Author: Naziaty Mohd Yaacob
Photo (art work) in podcast called: Corpse pose view by Amna A Emir

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