Events

Hello, Robot. Design Between Human and Machine
Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein

​The show features more than 150 exhibits including Hylozoic Grove by Waterloo Architecture's Philip Beesley and Living Architecture Systems Group.

Hylozoic Grove includes kinetic breathing columns and suspended cloud-like filters, installed in the Frank Gehry-designed Vitra Design Museum, Basel.

Presented in conversation with the student-led initiative Treaty Lands Global Stories.

Building on differences
2017 marks 150 years of colonialism since Canadian Confederation and the rise of authoritarian populism around the world. In this context, the winter lecture series brings together architects and artists, historians and designers, who are constructively struggling to create possible futures of equitable co-existence for people of different cultural beliefs and practices.

Keynote Speaker 6:00 – 7:30 pm
Stephen Gray, Harvard University

Over the past two decades the city of Toronto has witnessed an unprecedented transformation, outstripping all other major North American cities with the development of urban core residential buildings, shifting the balance from primarily 9-5 weekday employment occupation to a more mixed use and continuously occupied city centre.

Presented in conversation with the student-led initiative Treaty Lands Global Stories.

Building on differences
2017 marks 150 years of colonialism since Canadian Confederation and the rise of authoritarian populism around the world. In this context, the winter lecture series brings together architects and artists, historians and designers, who are constructively struggling to create possible futures of equitable co-existence for people of different cultural beliefs and practices.

The Winter 2017 Arriscraft Lecture Series is presented in conversation with the student-led initiative Treaty Lands Global Stories. 

Building on differences
​2017 marks 150 years of colonialism since Canadian Confederation and the rise of authoritarian populism around the world. In this context, the winter lecture series brings together architects and artists, historians and designers, who are constructively struggling to create possible futures of equitable co-existence for people of different cultural beliefs and practices.

Lecture #2
The One Room Schoolhouse and Beyond: The Work of the Knechtel Firm 1890 - 1930 
Presentation by Susan Burke  

Colloquium -- Computational Mathematics

Speaker: David Correa, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, University of Waterloo

Title: "Material Informed Computational Design in Architecture"

Remarks: Refreshments at 3:45pm