The School of Architecture at Waterloo is a leader in design education and research. It offers a fully cooperative professional program, and has been rated the greenest architecture curriculum in Canada. It is also the only Canadian school of architecture to have a permanent international facility, which has operated for 38 years in Rome, Italy. The school attracts top students from across Canada and around the world.
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UWSA recent graduates Isabel Ochoa + James Clarke-Hicks have been announced as one of the winners of the 2017 IIDEX Woodshop Competition with their steam bent light fixture titled "SPLIT". Exploring the role of "craft in production" using both digital and traditional wood fabrication techniques, the fixture was developed as part of their 4B independent study under the advisory of Heinz Koller and David Correa.
Nada Nafeh’s thesis [UWSA MArch 2015] just received the Next Generation 3rd Prize Middle East Africa Award from the LafargeHolcim Foundation. With her project, Nada aims to improve living conditions in informal settlements in Cairo.
Robot Made: Large-Scale Robotic Timber Fabrication in Architecture
Research Associate Oliver David Krieg of the Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD), and Assistant Professor David Correa from the University of Waterloo will hold a workshop on robotic fabrication at the Centre for Advanced Wood Processing of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, from September 9th to 13th.
An examination of the chilling role architecture played in constructing Auschwitz.
The Evidence Room is a powerful installation which reconstructs key objects used in the forensic analysis of the architecture of Auschwitz. Historian Robert Jan van Pelt introduced the objects as evidence in a court case to demonstrate that Auschwitz was purposefully designed as a death camp.
This conversation is the first of 6 conversations. The series will stage conversations around the different areas of the Waterloo Architecture curriculum with one broad ambition: Questioning the canon: In a world of unprecedented possibilities and unforeseen brutalities, what can architectural education do?
The School of Architecture invites all interested students, along with their parents and friends to join us in Cambridge on Saturday, November 4, 2017 from 10 am to 4 pm. This is a great opportunity to visit the Architecture campus, speak to professors and current students, tour the facilities, see demonstrations and displays of student work, portfolios and attend a program information session.
