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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.

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Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present

The book Canadian Modern Architecture: 1967 to the Present is the first comprehensive volume on modern and contemporary Canadian architecture to appear in over 25 years. It is co-published by Princeton Architectural Press and Canadian Architect magazine.

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. 

Waterloo Architecture undergraduate students Alexa Sharp, Georgina Blay and Janna Kholodova, with David Correa, recently published a peer-reviewed paper and presented at the 39th eCAADe Conference at the University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia, 8-10 September 2021.