Izam Ghazali

Designer

Name: Izam Ghazali

From: Brunei

Personal hobbies: I love watching films especially, the world-building nature, and story-telling is what attracts me the most. Also, I have always liked to observe new products, technology, cars, and for a few years now, cooking.

Why did I choose to study architecture? My love for making started when I was very young. Using a lot of cardboard, I built toys and costumes that I had seen on TV, but couldn’t buy in stores. I would make different versions and progressions of the same toy, just so that I would like the toy even more in the end. This worked well with my love to sketch. In school my passion continued to grow, we designed and built products, in the subject Design & Technology. It was a subject that greatly linked and suggested the field of architecture.

Izam Ghazali

"I believe the love for architecture is formed when they extend beyond a built structure. The beauty reveals itself when we understand its story, the effort it took to be realised, the thoughts and aspirations of the people behind it, and how we interoperate the effects that it takes on us. To search for the reason and soul behind the structure."