The 50th Anniversary Lecture 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?
Conversation
1:
Environment
and
Technology
October
30,
2017,
6:30pm
"Within
a
more-than-human
world,
how
can
the
study
of
building
technology
interrogate
the
appropriateness
of
technology
itself?"
This conversation
features
Marc
Simmons
and
Kiel
Moe.
View
the
poster.
Conversation
2: Urbanism
and
Landscape
November
13,
2017,
6:30pm
"As
our
very
notion
of
the
urban
rapidly
transforms,
how
can
landscape
and
urbanism
support
ecology,
sociality
and
equality?"
This
conversation
features
Teresa
Gali-Izard
and
Neeraj
Bhatia.
View
the
poster.
Conversation
3:
Cultural
History
January
25,
2018,
6:30pm
"With
its
legacy
of
confronting
difficult
questions,
how
can
cultural
history
evolve
to
embrace
the
complex
cultural
narratives
of
our
global
world?"
This
conversation
features Meredith
TenHoor and Tammy
Gaber.
View
the
poster.
Exhibition:
Waterloo
Architecture
50th
Anniversary
February
5-April
8,
2018
Please
join
us
on
Monday,
February
5
at
6:30pm to
celebrate
the
opening
of
the Waterloo
Architecture 50th
Anniversary
Exhibition.
Conversation
4:
Design
Studio
February
8,
2018,
6:30pm
"How
can
digital
technology
qualitatively
engage
the
material
and
cultural
problems
of
the
world?"
This
conversation
features Siamak
Hariri and Philip
Yuan.
View
the
poster.
Conversation
5:
Visual
and
Digital
Media
March
1,
2018,
6:30pm
"How
can
digital
technology
qualitatively
engage
the
complex
material,
economic
and
social
realities
of
the
world?"
This
conversation
features
Charles
Walker
and
Theodora
Vardouli.
Conversation
6:
Practice
in
Education
May
17,
2018,
6:30pm
"In
an
era
of
increased
specialization
and
an
expanding
body
of
distributed
knowledge,
how
can
architectural
practice
develop
integrated
approaches
to
the
most
pressing
problems
of
our
times?"
This
conversation
features
Allan
Cain
and
Gloria
Cabral.