Waterloo Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
N1S 2H4
architecture@uwaterloo.ca
Monday, October 30, 2017 — 6:30 PM EDT
This conversation is the first of 6 conversations. The series will stage conversations around the different areas of the Waterloo Architecture curriculum with one broad ambition: Questioning the canon: In a world of unprecedented possibilities and unforeseen brutalities, what can architectural education do?
Saturday, October 28, 2017 — 1:00 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
The Grand River Film Festival is showing 3 films on Saturday, October 28th at the School of Architecture, beginning at 1pm.
For more information visit https://grff.eventive.org/schedule
*students, check your email from Emily on Oct. 25 for a discount code*
Thursday, October 26, 2017 — 6:00 PM EDT
Please join us on Thursday October 26th in the Cummings Lecture Theatre for a guest lecture with Oliver David Krieg.
Wednesday, October 4, 2017 — 1:00 PM EDT
Of the thesis entitled: An Index of Bearings and Groundworks: Architectural lessons on foundation building in Van Tat Gwich’in Territory
Abstract:
The foundation mediates the relationship between a building and the land. It is a connection that is particularly challenging to ground in frozen soils.
Sunday, June 25, 2017 — 10:00 AM to Sunday, September 30, 2018 — 5:30 PM EDT
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.