Waterloo Architecture graduate Chanel Dehond has won an award for her project The Lost Day Spa in the Student Project category of the 11th annual HD Awards.
Waterloo Architecture would like to congratulate M.Arch candidate Tristan van Leur, the 2015 recipient of the Michael Evamy Scholarship.
Instead of trying to convince people to put their devices away, Tristan's thesis entitled Spacebook will examine ways to empower public spaces through mobile devices.
Congratulations Tristan!
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Waterloo Architecture graduate Chanel Dehond (BAS, M.Arch) received an Honourable Mention in the 2015 Fairy Tales competition.
Hosted by Blank Space, it was the second iteration of the popular ideas contest that challenges participants to produce inspired architectural projects accompanied by fictional stories. With over 1,200 participants from 65 countries around the world, the Fairy Tales competition has cemented itself as the largest ideas competition in the industry.
Professor Terri Meyer Boake has been selected to receive the American Institute of Steel Construction's (AISC) 2015 Educator Special Achievement Award. This award honours individuals who have demonstrated notable singular or multiple achievements in the structural steel design, construction, research or education. The prestigious award will be presented to Terri at NASCC: The Steel Conference in March 2015. Congratulations Terri!
Available January 2015, Professor Terri Meyer Boake has just published a new text, Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Specifications, Connections, Details, through Birkhäuser of Switzerland. The book is available for pre-order through DeGruyter.
University of Waterloo Architecture Alumni Andrea Lam is currently featured in the October 2014 edition of eWEAL (Waterloo Engineering Alumni eLetter). Please read the article below or visit the eWEAL website:
Re-thinking residences for an aging population
By Cynthia Kinnunen
Waterloo Architecture took part in this year's Paris Fashion Week. The Waterloo Hylozoic Architecture group led by Philip Beesley collaborated with fashion designer Iris Van Herpen to help create 10 dresses for her new Magnetic Motion collection.
The following article is currently featured on the University of Waterloo Engineering news website:
The University of Waterloo 2013-14 Report on Giving takes a look at the impact of investment over the course of the past year.
School of Architecture students Victoria Suen and Carrie Cheng were featured in the Report as they were one of nine recipients of funding from the Engineer of the Future Trust - a pool of discretionary micro-seed funding for budding entrepreneurs at Waterloo Engineering.
The 14th international Venice Architectural Biennale curated by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas opened on June 7, 2014. This year's exhibition entitled Fundamentals features the work of 65 participating countries and will run until November 23, 2014.
Waterloo Architecture graduate Samantha Oswald has been selected to receive an Electronic Dissertation Thesis (EDT) Award from the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) international consortium.