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Congratulations to Fiona Lim Tung and Anne Bordeleau, who both received a 2020 Outstanding Performance Award.

"I am very pleased to announce the Outstanding Performance Award recipients for 2020 and would like to take this opportunity to congratulate them for their outstanding contributions to the University of Waterloo," writes James Rush, vice-president, academic & provost. Anne and Fiona were both named for the Faculty of Engineering.

Grove by Philip Beesley and the Living Architecture Systems Group will be open to the public at the Venice Biennale of Architecture from May 22 to November 21, 2021.

An alumnus of Waterloo Architecture was recently announced as the winner of a prestigious award through the Canada Council for the Arts.

Samantha Eby (BAS ’14), who works as an architectural designer at Batay-Csorba Architects in Toronto, is the recipient of the 2020 Prix de Rome in Architecture for Emerging Practitioners.

The prize is awarded annually to a recent graduate of a Canadian architectural school – Eby went on to earn a master’s degree at the University of Toronto in 2018 – who has demonstrated exceptional potential in contemporary architectural design.

The Ontario Undergraduate Student Alliance Teaching Excellence Award recognizes educators who excel at unlocking the potential of Ontario’s young people. Successfully engaging individuals in the learning experience depends on an instructor's ability to spark students' curiosity and desire to learn. An excellent instructor will be able to engage their students in the process of learning and discovery and help them develop the critical skills that form the foundation of a robust education.

The Living Architecture Systems Group’s GROVE project opens this month at the Venice Biennale. The pool-shaped form in the middle acts as a kind of well that will receive a CGI-based film entitled Grove Cradle. 40 channels of sound will weave in and out around it, enacting a death-to-life-to-death cycle that includes mineral, liquid and organic forms rising and transforming into a child’s form who wakes and explores, touching and communicating hesitantly. Sound includes extracts from Flaubert’s Temptations of St.

A synagogue designed by Basel-based architect Manuel Herz for the Babyn Yar site in Kyiv, Ukraine, held it's official opening. It is a pop-up synagogue that stands in the tradition of the wooden synagogues of Eastern Europe that were all destroyed during the Holocaust. It is a building that is inspired by the children’s pop-up book.

Congratulations to Anya Moryoussef (MArch '06), who has received the 2021 Emerging Architect Award from the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC).

The Emerging Architect Award is to recognize an emerging architect for excellence in design, leadership and/or service to the profession. It is intended that this award will inspire other individuals to become licensed and to strive for excellence in their work. 

Congratulations to MArch candidate Brenda Reid, for receiving a nomination for the Oktoberfest Rogers Women of the Year Awards, in the Arts & Culture category. The Awards celebrate the amazing accomplishments of women in Waterloo Region. "The women nominated are doing incredible things which help build strong communities and it is evident that their accomplishments are making a difference across the region," said Tim Beckett, festival President. 

Congratulations to alumnus Elsa Lam, recipient of a RAIC Award of Excellence.

The book Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present has won the President's Award for Multimedia Representations of Architecture. This award recognizes a narrative about buildings and cities that promotes the publics understanding of architecture and the role of architects. The entry must be a body of work. 

Medal Recipient: Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present

Elsa Lam (Editor), Graham Livesey (Editor)
Published: 2019
Toronto, ON

The Ontario Association of Architects’ (OAA’s) 2021 SHIFT Resiliency/Architecture Challenge sought unique, inventive ideas that would promote public dialogue, shift public consciousness, affect society, and drive change.