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.
Join the students and faculty of the Fall 2025 3b option studios for an open house showcasing their work.
Celebrate the conclusion of TO·BE·LONGING: Portraits of Queer Living with a closing reception at the School of Architecture.
George Massoud, Material Cultures, London, UK
Material Cultures is an interdisciplinary, not-for-profit research, action and design organisation working to address the intersecting issues of climate and social justice in the built environment. Understanding buildings as ultimately drawn from the landscape, we argue for the reintegration of architecture and agriculture. We support regenerative approaches to growing and harvesting materials, fostering bioregional construction practices that operate within planetary boundaries. We challenge the systems, technologies, supply chains, regulations and materials that make up the construction industry, with the aim of transforming how we build and who we build for.
Samantha Eby, Emerging Practitioner, Waterloo Architecture
Samantha Eby is a licensed architect and researcher based in Toronto. Through her work she explores the intersection of design, policy frameworks, and ownership models, focusing on their impact on housing projects. In 2024, she founded this—office, an architecture and spatial research practice committed to exploring new typologies and models of architecture through non-traditional collaborations and research. She is also the co-founder and the Executive Director of ReHousing, a nonprofit organization focused on supporting housing creation through applied research, consultation, and education. ReHousing’s work on multiplex zoning was recognized with the 2023 CMHC President’s Medal for Outstanding Housing Research.
Angie Jim, Allies & Morrison
What truly defines "homes for all" in our rapidly growing cities? In this talk, Angie Jim Osman, Partner at Allies and Morrison, explores how thoughtful design and density can nurture communities, championing sustainable, resilient neighbourhoods built for the long term. Drawing on Allies and Morrison’s deep experience with complex urban regeneration sites—from King’s Cross to Greenwich Peninsula in London—Angie will reveal how these foundational lessons are now being adapted to reshape Toronto.
Join us on March 5, from 6:00–8:00 PM, to celebrate the launch of this faculty research exhibition exploring architecture shaped by mobility, precarity, and resilience. Featuring work by Professors Robert Jan van Pelt and Anwar Jaber, the exhibition examines how temporary structures and institutions under occupation reveal urgent ethical and political questions.
Riverside Gallery
Waterloo School of Architecture
7 Melville Street South, Cambridge, ON
Brian Doucet, University of Waterloo
Thinking Beyond the Market: A film about genuinely affordable housing takes you across Canada to learn about policies, programs and projects that are already happening and already having a positive impact on addressing the housing crisis. From using public land to build non-market housing in Kitchener and Whistler, and inspiring Indigenous-led projects in Vancouver, to strong tenant protections and rent control in British Columbia and Prince Edward Island, the examples featured in this film demonstrate how many important solutions are making a difference in communities big and small! The film features interviews with more than 30 planners, policymakers, politicians, developers, residents and housing advocates from coast to coast. The film inspires and challenges us to think about both the root causes of the housing crisis and transformative solutions.