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Dear UWSA Community,
You are invited to the third of a four part symposium series taking place over the spring term.
Join us in the Columns and Capital Symposium for two panel discussions about navigating the world of economics that lies between architectural design and real estate development. The symposium is taking place on Tuesday, July 14 from 10:00am-12:00pm and 1:00pm-3:00pm.
Architecture is capital intensive. Yet conventional architectural education provides little exposure to the economic realities of design practice and real estate development. Students graduate without the entrepreneurial agility needed to advocate for architectural design in the market-driven field of building places for people to live.
The morning discussion with Michael Leckie (Leckie Studio), John van Nostrand (Parcel Development), and John McMinn (UWSA) is about architects taking on the role of developers.
The afternoon panel with Peter Clewes (architectsAlliance), John Filipetti (Oxford Properties) and Larry Smith (UW, School of Economics) is about the impact of macro-economic forces on architecture and real-estate development.
For information, please review the symposium package.
You can join the symposium virtually on Zoom.
This symposium has been organized by current Master of Architecture students Alice Huang, Levi Herman Van Weerden and Wayne Yan. If you have any questions or comments, please connect with them via email.
Waterloo Architecture
7 Melville Street South
Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
N1S 2H4
architecture@uwaterloo.ca
Contact Waterloo Architecture
Support Waterloo Architecture
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Provide Website Feedback
Musagetes Library
The University of Waterloo acknowledges that much of our work takes place on the traditional territory of the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. Our main campus is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land granted to the Six Nations that includes six miles on each side of the Grand River. Our active work toward reconciliation takes place across our campuses through research, learning, teaching, and community building, and is centralized within our Indigenous Initiatives Office.