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. Grove is a delicate and beautiful gathering space that offers a vision for inclusive, open building.
Alison Brooks has been honoured as 2020’s Architect of the Year by Dezeen, an influential architecture and design online magazine based in London, England.
Brooks, a 1988 Waterloo architecture alumnus, received the recognition from Dezeen’s international jury.
Elizabeth English, a School of Architecture professor, shared her personal experiences while speaking at a recent TEDxManhattanBeach conference about how amphibious housing can save communities in flood zones.
A School of Architecture professor and renowned Holocaust historian has won a prestigious award that recognizes exceptional Canadian researchers and their achievements.
Robert Jan van Pelt shares both a strong professional and personal connection to an upcoming New York City exhibit that tells the story of the unspeakable horrors of Auschwitz.
David Correa’s The Wander Wood research pavilion wins the Canada Wood Council Jury’s Award for Wood Innovation. Developed by Waterloo Architecture faculty David Correa, with Oliver Krieg and AnnaLisa Meyboom, the pavilion was built on UBC campus in October 2018.
A third-year student at the School of Architecture will have her work showcased at an upcoming trade show in Toronto after taking first place in a province-wide design contest.
Professor David Correa didn’t know quite what to expect when he launched a class for graduate students at the School of Architecture to explore the potential of a new 3D printer for clay.
Six months later, he couldn’t be happier with the one-of-a-kind projects they produced after being challenged to design and build small walls made out of bricks.
Click here for the full story and a video on their impressive work with the $20,000 machine, believed to be the only one of its kind in Canada.
A professor at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo had a lead role in a recent project to build an experimental wooden structure using state-of-the-art robotic tools.
David Correa and a team of about three dozen architecture students and industry partners completed the elaborate bench during a five-day workshop on robotic timber fabrication at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver last month.
March student Jason McMillan has won the Canada Green Building Council (CaGBC) Scholarship for Sustainable Design and Research. The annual scholarship was awarded for McMillan's proposal "Unsettling Ground: Arctic Urbanism on Fluid Geology."