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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. 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.

  2. June 26, 2018Rick Haldenby to speak at Stratford Festival Forum

    ARCHITECTURE OF CAESAR'S ROME
    ​Friday, August 17, 2018

  3. June 25, 2018Now available - Listening to Design: A Guide to the Creative Process, by Andrew Levitt LISTENING TO DESIGN cover

    Listening to Design is focused on the inner world of the designer. The book is not concerned with a particular style, formal approach or choice of materials. Instead it is about the way designers can transform the doubts, desires and psychological trials of the creative process into authentic and meaningful design decisions. After many years teaching design to architecture students and also working as a psychotherapist I wanted to share my passion about the powerful way our inner world shapes the built world.

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Events

  1. June 25, 2017 to Sep. 3, 2018The Evidence Room

    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.

  2. 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 

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