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An emerging technology poses an intriguing solution to rising tides: homes that float only when it floods.

Elizabeth English is featured in a Dwell magazine article regarding amphibious housing.

The second International Conference on Amphibious Architecture, Design and Engineering (ICAADE) will be held at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada from June 25 to 28, 2017.  

A project called Analogous Space by Waterloo Architecture graduates Elaine Chau and Kristina Seo has been named winner of the 2017 Urban Marker competition, presented by the RAIC Emerging Practitioners.

The Evidence Room will open at the Royal Ontario Museum on June 24 for a seven month run.

The University of Waterloo School of Architecture contributed The Evidence Room to the international exhibition "Reporting from the Front," curated by Alejandro Aravena for the 15th Architecture Biennale.

The Evidence Room examines the role of architecture in the Holocaust, and was organized by principals Anne Bordeleau, Sascha Hastings, Donald McKay and Robert Jan van Pelt.

An excerpt from Jane Hutton’s forthcoming book, Reciprocal Landscapes: Cases in Material Movements, titled, "Inexhaustible Terrain," has been published in the Canadian Centre for Architecture web journal. The text links the production and distribution of guano, used in trace amounts to fertilize Central Park’s meadows, to a changing global metabolic regime and slavery in the Americas.