The University of Waterloo School of Architecture is a leader in design education and research.
Offering a fully cooperative professional program, Waterloo Architecture is 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 and has been rated the greenest architecture curriculum in Canada.
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Tom Patterson Theatre Wins Award Recognition
The Civic Trust Award in the United Kingdom has named the theatre as a Regional Finalist.
The new Tom Patterson Theatre at the famed Stratford Festival is receiving international acclaim even before the building opens for the 2022 Festival season.
2021 Projects Review Exhibition
The University of Waterloo School of Architecture Projects Review 2021 features graduate and undergraduate projects from the past year.
The exhibition showcases the creativity, craft and commitment to architectural excellence that are internationally recognized qualities of the School.
Architectural historian Magdalena Milosz considers postwar residential schools and the illusion of progress.
Settler-Colonial Modern
Writing about modernism in colonial contexts, architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright proposes that “the physical environment became a strategy for enforcing common values while maintaining difference within a conjoint modern world.” In Canada, little else exemplifies this statement so strongly as the century-long experiment known as residential schools.