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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 since 1979 in Rome, Italy. The school attracts top students from across Canada and around the world.

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News

  1. Aug. 21, 2018Jason McMillan wins 2018 CaGBC scholarship

    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."

    The jury believed that "the proposal demonstrated a wholistic approach and was head and shoulder above the rest of the submissions". They felt that McMillan's project "has tangential and addressed hot topics such as indigenous architecture."

  2. Aug. 21, 2018Buoyant Foundation Project homes floating in Vietnam

    Two of the amphibiously retrofitted homes in the Mekong Delta from the Buoyant Foundation's current project are floating.

    For three weeks in May and two weeks in June-July, 2018, Canadian team members travelled to Vietnam to coordinate the retrofitting of four homes in particularly vulnerable locations of the Mekong Delta. 

  3. July 24, 2018UWSA Design Build Program 2018

    The UWSA Design Build program provides an opportunity for Waterloo Architecture students to work directly with First Nations communities on cultural building projects in the Grand River region.

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Events

  1. June 2 to Oct. 8, 2018Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion | Philip Beesley: Transforming Spacevan Herpen dress and Beesley's immersive installation, Astrocyte


    Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion 

  2. Sep. 12, 2018Thesis Defence: Shreya Garg


    Of the thesis entitled: Revitalization of the Walled City of Delhi, Shahjahanabad: Incremental Urban Development Mediated through an Urban Design Framework

  3. Sep. 12, 2018Thesis Defence: Connie Lei


    Of the thesis entitled: Revitalizing Suburbia: Build Integrated Communities

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