Philip Beesley is a multidisciplinary artist, academic and architect leading Waterloo’s Living Architecture Systems (LAS), an international group of pioneering researchers and industry partners developing far-reaching experimental architecture. His research explores bold questions such as, “Could future buildings think, and care?”
Elizabeth English is featured in New Yorker magazine, speaking about current climate conditions and amphibious architecture as a solution.
Amphibiation reflects a growing consensus that, at a time of climatic volatility, people can’t simply fight against water; they have to learn to live with it.
Waterloo Architecture graduate, Bryce Clayton, received the Award of Excellence for the 2017 Edmonton Urban Design Awards in the category Student Projects. Bryce's Thesis, 53 North: Tactical Infrastructure in Edmonton, explores creating a new design tool whereby the intrinsic values of snow can be utilized to create winter public spaces to temporarily occupy the urban void. A new structure is proposed where City groups will act as coordinators sanctioning land parcels for urban interventions using the snow on each site and that cleared by the municipal workers, sculpted into basic forms. When used in combination, the forms create protective, desirable micro-climates which inject program and activity into the formerly vacant lots, introducing positive winter activity into the realm of daily life in Edmonton.