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Masterworks is an annual showcase of exemplary graduate student work at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. This year, the Masterworks exhibition will be curated by UWSA alum Kurt Kraler around themes explored in his graduate thesis, “The Generic Spectacle” (2016), and his recently published book, “The Signs That Define Toronto” (2022).
Facadist Toronto: Heritage at Face Value
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What is architectural research? Unpacking a research project
What is architectural research? Unpacking a research project
A monthly lunch-hour faculty research seminar
12:40-1:25pm, free pizza provided
Format: 25-minute presentations, followed by a 20 minute Q+A
The purpose of these presentations is look under the hood at a single research project, in order to understand:
Undoing Oil: Regenerative Disassembly for Copenhagen's Petrol Island
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In Honour of Andrew Levitt, celebrating the legacy of a Professor Emeritus dedicated to teaching on care, and with care.
Please join us for Dark Matter U @ Waterloo: Co-teaching with community,thelecture will be held from 6:30pm - 8:00pm in the Main Lecture Hall at the Waterloo School of Architecture.
Gary McCluskie (BArch '86), a principal architect with Diamond Schmitt Architects, and his team helped complete a $550-million US renovation that solved a notorious problem in the cultural heart of the United States. The acoustics of Geffen Hall were so terrible that some started to call it a curse after two expensive renovations failed to fix the issue.
Rethinking Typology in Taipei: Designing New Frameworks for Urban Living
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David Correa, joined the Canadian Interiors magazine podcast Bevel (listen here), to discuss how limited access to robotics education is slowing down an industry already sluggish to adopt the exceptional potential this technology has for the built environment.