Waterloo Architecture graduate student Sarah Gertler and her thesis adviser Mona El Khafif were featured on the CBC's Metro Morning for a series called, "A Place to Go: Designing the city for dogs and people." It is a 5-part series that investigates the role of design in relieving some of the growing tensions around dogs.
Reminder that campus will be closed on Monday, October 10th for the Thanksgiving Holiday, and that there are no classes on Tuesday, October 11th and Wednesday, October 12th for the Fall Break.
Follow your Tuesday schedule on Thursday, October 13th and your Wednesday schedule on Friday, October 14th.
Associate Professor Dereck Revington is the artist selected by the Toronto Lighting Collaborative to design the first in a series of proposed annual lightworks for Nuit Blanche. He and his collaborator, Jonathan Tyrrell (teaching this term in Arch 192) will lead the design team.
Congratulations to Waterloo Architecture students Scott Proudfoot, Mengdie Zhang, Sarah Donaldson, Gabriela Chorobik, and faculty member Terri Boake, who took 2nd place for their project Diagroup Tower in this year's ACSA/AISC Steel Student Design Competition.
Congratulations to Eveline Lam and Dave Holborn! Eveline and Dave were selected as the 3rd place prize winners out of 84 entries in the Rome Concrete Poetry Hallinternational architecture competition.
Waterloo Architecture alumnus (2007) Kfir Gluzberg's Kilogram Studio has been featured in July's Canadian Architect magazine, Emerging Practices section.
Congratulations to Professor Philip Beesley and his team for being awarded the STARTS – Grand prize of the European Commission honouring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts 2016.
The Magnetic Motion project with Iris van Herpen received the grand prize for ‘artistic exploration and art works where appropriation by the arts has a strong potential to influence or alter the use, deployment or perception of technology’.
Congratulations to the finalists in the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction (CISC) competition. Suspend, the 15th annual Architecture Student Design Competition, challenged students to design a structure that explores ‘suspend’ on a site of the designers’ choosing.
Congratulations to Alison Brooks, who received an Honorary Doctor of Engineering on Saturday, June 18 at the University of Waterloo Engineering convocation ceremony. Brooks is one of the leading architects of her generation, and she has designed some of the most original and important buildings in the United Kingdom over the last two decades.
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture contributed The Evidence Room to the international exhibition "Reporting from the Front," curated by Alejandro Aravena for the 15th Architecture Biennale.
The Evidence Room examines the role of architecture in the Holocaust, and was organized by principals Anne Bordeleau, Sascha Hastings, Donald McKay and Robert Jan van Pelt. Team members included Siobhan Allman, Piper Bernbaum, Anna Beznogova, Anna Longrigg, Michael Nugent, Bradley Paddock, and Alexandru Vilcu.