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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. Dec. 16, 2020From Behind the Mask: Featured on CTV News
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    Congratulations to Brenda Reid whose collaborative art project, From Behind the Mask received recognition on CTV News this week.

    From Behind the Mask is a community quilt of COVID-19 stories. Local community members are able to pick up a kit from a number of nearby businesses and use the materials to express their covid-19 experiences through words and fabric. The kit is then mailed back to be included in a large community covid-19 quilt. 

  2. Dec. 14, 2020LASG/RAP launch for CITA Complex Modelling
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    Living Architecture Systems Group and Riverside Architectural Press proudly announce 'CITA: Complex Modelling', a compilation of five years of computational modeling in architecture.

    The book is authored by LASG partner CITA, the Centre for Information Technology and Architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and published by Waterloo Architecture's Riverside Architectural Press.

  3. Dec. 10, 2020Elizabeth English featured in The Wall Street Journal

    Elizabeth English shares her ideas on amphibious housing in the Wall Street Journal article, Climate-proofing homes for extreme weather ahead.

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Events

  1. Sep. 22, 2020 to Mar. @9, 20212020-2021 Arriscraft Speaker Series: What is Solidarity?
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  2. Jan. 19, 2021Thesis Defence: Brendan Lacy
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    Of the thesis entitled: 
    The Green Scare: Radical environmental activism and the invention of “eco-terrorism” in American superhero comics from 1970 to 1990

  3. Feb. 9, 2021Undergraduate Webinar | Admissions: Next Steps

    Future students are invited to join us for a Waterloo Admissions Webinar to ask questions and learn everything you need to know about the application process for the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo! The focus of this Webinar will be on the second stage of the admissions process dealing with the portfolio, presentation video and the précis test.

    Presenters will include Admissions Chair Rick Andrighetti and Undergraduate Coordinator Nicole Guenther. 

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