Events

Masterworks is an annual showcase of exemplary graduate student work that intersects a selected research/design topic proposed by a graduate alumnus.

The 2025 exhibition, Masterworks: Tracking Time was curated by Elizabeth Ann Lenny (BAS '19, MArc'21) opens Thursday, May 22, 2025 and features work by:

• Vincent Chuang
• From Earth to Earth to Earth (Joanne Yau and Liyang Zhang)
• Yoon Hur
• Elizabeth Lenny
• Ali Salama
• Madeleine Audrey Sze Mun Wong
• Martha Trivett
• Bianca Weeko Martin
• Yi Chen Zhang
• Hiba Zubairi

 The event in the Riverside Gallery at the University of Waterloo School of Architecture runs from 6:00 - 8:00 pm and includes light refreshments by disko coffee.

We invite Waterloo Architecture Alumni to come together to connect with fellow alumni, as well as faculty members, students, and staff of the School. Maya Przybylski, O’Donovan Director, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo, will be saying a few words regarding the 2025 year, including exciting updates from the School, upcoming alumni events, and more! Refreshments will be served.

The School of Architecture is excited to invite alumni who graduated in a year ending in a 0 or 5 for a special reunion celebration! For those with multiple degrees received from Waterloo Architecture, we invite you to count from your first degree awarded (i.e. 1980, 1985, 1990… etc.)

Join us on Thursday, July 24, at 6:00 pm for the opening reception of 'The Chair Project 2007-2024: a Retrospective', a survey of student work from Professor Elizabeth English's 3b and 4b design-build chair course.

On behalf of the various committees who have supported this exhibition and Elizabeth, please join us this Friday for a Lecture and The Chair Exhibition closing event. The evening will start at 6:00 pm

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.

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.