22 FEB 2021

Celebrating Virtual Exhibition COGnitii 2021

"CONGRATULATIONS to the Year 3 students for organising this inaugural virtual exhibition called COGnitii 2021 for the Class of 2021 Bachelor of Science in Architecture. On behalf of the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia, we are proud to see everyone going through a design cognition discourse under the guidance of Professor Ts. Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim and Ts. Dr. Maszura Abdul Ghafar."

Prof. Madya Dr. Mohamad Fakri Zaky Ja’afar

Head of Department - Department of Architecture

"COGnitii 2020 is by the Class of 2021 Bachelor of Science in Architecture who had taken up ARC4902 Topical Studies under the instruction of Professor Ts. Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim. While the course intent was to nurture and expand the observable cues from the environment into written text, the class efforts saw an incredible build-up of critical writing competency among young architectural students. It would just be wasteful if the prosodic rationales emerging from the students’ critical reading-analysis-synthesis-translation efforts were not shared to the public."

Rahinah Ibrahim

Editor - in - Chief

"Impacted by global trends and the Covid-19 pandemic, the studio project seeks to change the role of commercial buildings and how they play in contextual people’s lives. This foretells that commercial buildings are the new public spaces in urban areas that cater contextual commercial sustainability, safe locality, and neighbourhood vitality. Ultimately, a community could live, shop and work all within walking distance."

Maszura Abdul Ghafar

Editor - in - Chief

Raphaelle Hallaj brings 20 years of expertise in ecological sustainable design, project/construction management, Net Zero, LEED, and clean energy. She has a background in affordable housing, and projects involving renewables/utilities EPC. Raphaelle has become a leader in green building through her research, speaking engagements, and teaching at Cal Poly and Stanford University, including publishing numerous papers on these topics. Her commitment to service and advocacy for green building and sustainability provides great benefit to her clients. She had experienced creating fashion design stage design and fine arts gallery design and exhibitions at Parsons.

Raphaelle Hallaj

External Reviewer

Nasir Baharuddin basically studied fine art was formerly a Senior Leacturer at the Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia. Over 30 years of experience in prestigious art exhibitions at national and international levels. Nasir is an award-winning artist and well-known in many artistic programmes besides being a creative art curator of many exhibitions. He is a writer and a leader in art science collaborative programmes. Nasir specialises in developing concepts of visual epistemology through textual language as an image of convergence communication.

Nasir Baharuddin

External Reviewer

"The organising team of COGnitii 2021 is very grateful to Associate Professor Dr. Mohd. Zaky Jaafar, the Head of the Architecture Department, Faculty of Design and Architecture, Universiti Putra Malaysia. It would like to thank the Department of Architecture and Grounded Learning (M) Sdn. Bhd. for support and budget provision for the successful COGnitii 2021 event to take foot at the Faculty of Design and Architecture. COGnitii 2021 event is a befitting finale to the Class of 2021 Bachelor of Science in Architecture programme at Universiti Putra Malaysia."

Cheah Wing Shen

Exhibition Director

"The Class of 2021 is most grateful to Professor Ts. Dr. Rahinah Ibrahim for her detailed guidance on techniques and encouragement in preparing the written materials. Together with Ts. Dr. Maszura Abdul Ghafar, they had enabled us to realize an impossible vision."