Waterloo Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
N1S 2H4
architecture@uwaterloo.ca
Thursday, January 25, 2018 — 6:30 PM EST
This conversation is the third 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?”
This particular conversation will consider the following sub-question: “With its legacy of confronting difficult questions, how can cultural history evolve to embrace the complex cultural narratives of our global world?”
Sunday, January 21, 2018 — 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST
A multidisciplinary look at the installation The Evidence Room, its historic context, and its significance in understanding the mechanisms behind the Holocaust.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018 — 2:00 PM EST
Of the thesis entitled: PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Friday, January 12, 2018 — 2:00 PM EST
Of the thesis entitled: POWER, ARCHITECTURE, TRANSITION: Creating a Safe Space for Victims of Domestic Violence
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Friday, January 12, 2018 — 9:30 AM EST
Of the thesis entitled: Motion with Moisture: Creating Passive Dynamic Envelope Systems Using the Hygroscopic Properties of Wood Veneer
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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.