Events

A lecture with Rick Haldenby

Waterloo Region is the fastest-growing metropolitan area in Canada. The development boom is bringing dramatic change to its urban environment through intensification. The threat to heritage buildings and landscapes grows greater every day. At the same time cities are grappling with the climate crisis and pressure to deal with social equity and historical injustice. The pressures in cities across Canada are intense. Good minds are calling into question the very principles on which our approach to heritage preservation and planning are based and proposing a return to  practices that in past impinged on stable neighbourhoods and demolished historic buildings. This talk will consider these broader issues facing Canadian cities and Waterloo Region in particular.  

This lecture is jointly offered by the University of Waterloo School of Architecture and the Architectural Conservancy of Ontario North Waterloo Regional Branch. We welcome all members and followers of the ACONW to join the School of Architecture community in attending this event.

This lecture will be available to view the week of November 16 on our YouTube channel.

Register for Boom Town Waterloo Region

Future students are invited to join us for a Waterloo Admissions Webinar to ask questions and learn everything you need to know about applying to the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo!

Presenters will include Admissions Chair Rick Andrighetti and Undergraduate Coordinator Donna Woolcott. 

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How cities develop and function is the endeavor of engineers and planners, among others, however, students and faculty in these two disciplines often have limited opportunity to work and study collaboratively. At the University of Waterloo, we are fortunate to have a Planner- in-Residence and an Engineer-in-Residence who bring industry perspectives to curricular activities in the School of Planning and in Civil and Environmental Engineering, respectively. Both experts believe in the advantages of collaboration and interdisciplinary for the benefit of our cities and urban prosperity. This session is a first step toward bridging the two disciplines further, highlight examples of the shortfalls of working in disciplinary silos and the benefits of synergy among planners and engineers.

A discussion on the present and future of public bathing architectures with:

• Ekin Balcioglu, artist, founder of HAMAM: The Magazine of Letting Go
• Josée-Ann Cloutier, thermal bathing specialist and creator of Steam Space
• Astrida Neimanis, University of Sydney Gender and Cultural Studies, author Bodies of Water: Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology
• Amelia Holliday, director Aileen Sage Architects, co-curator The Pool Venice Architecture Biennale 2016
• Stephanie Crohin, Public baths activist, photographer and official Sento ambassador of Japan

A Classification System for Public Space Design in Wide Seasonal Range (WiSR) Cities

SOCIOCULTURALLY FOCUSED RECLAMATION: Reimagining the Post-extraction Landscape of Giant Mine

Redefining the Classroom: Incorporating Sensory Cognizant Design Strategies

Please join us on Tuesday, December 15th as ten MArch students will be presenting their thesis research. Please see the poster for more information and visit WAConnect for the Teams links

A Guide for Foreign Trained Newcomer Architects | Identifying barriers to re-licensure in Canada

The Witch’s House: Designing the house of the witch as a process of deconstructing an authority and invoking a feminist resistance.