Events

Join us for the opening of Projects Review, the annual exhibition showcasing undergraduate and graduate work from the University of Waterloo School of Architecture. This year’s collection celebrates student projects that critically engage with a wide spectrum of architectural discourses.

Come celebrate the creativity, research, and vision of our students.

Refreshments will be served. All are welcome.

Guest lecture: Lina Lahiri, Sauerbruch Hutton

Reflections on Open Space: Metastable, precarious, resilient

This talk will outline a conceptual approach to current architecture offering precarious instruments that can indicate possible emerging realities.  A tough and resilient optimism can be expressed within new kinds of form-language that are delicate, and open. What is coming in our future? How can we speak of the future when the world seems almost unspeakably insecure?    

Architects do not make buildings, and they certainly do not make materials; they specify. The “out of stock” sign, often considered as a hiccup in procurement, is in fact a threshold where the ethical reach of architecture becomes visible, yet remains perpetually at risk of collapse.What if architecture is never fully available? What happens when specifying itself no longer leads directly to the production of a building? Drawing on 11 x 17’s recent projects, this lecture explores a material politics of “unavailability” and speculates on new modes of architectural practice that consider how form, material, and labor entangle to produce an architecture of resourcefulness. 

We are excited to invite you to join us in celebrating the galt. publication Issue 06 launch on Thursday, October 30th in Galt, Ontario.  The launch will be hosted at the BRIDGE space in the Gaslight District on October 30th from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. There will be light refreshments and snacks provided. 

Andy Ruff is the Research Director at Gray Organschi Architecture and the Timber City Research Initiative, where he focuses on developing a comprehensive approach for incorporating timber construction into cities, an approach which simultaneously addresses regional material flows, economies of carbon generation and sequestration, the development of new industrial processes, and the complex spatial, architectural, legal, and logistical challenges of constructing timber buildings in dense urban centers.

Public closing reception of the 2025 Projects Review exhibition.

Take a break, breathe, and paint your stress away! Join us for a relaxing mural-painting session designed to help you unwind and recharge.

Opening Reception
TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living
An exhibition by Quan Thai, Inaugural Emerging Practitioner Teaching Fellow (2023–2025)

For the past several months, Waterloo Architecture students have been learning alongside Western Law students in a co-taught course in Law & Architecture.  Their final assignment is to collaborate on a design for a new Law building for Western.  Students will be presenting their designs on Monday, December 1, in the Loft.