News & Events

Gena Wirth, RLA, is Design Principal and Partner at SCAPE. She works with cities, community advocates and landowners to reveal the immense ecological and cultural potential of public landscapes.

Waterloo Architecture alumni, join us and your fellow classmates for the annual Waterloo Engineering Alumni Ski Day at Osler Bluff Ski Club. The Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Health and the Faculty of Science will be joining the outdoor fun so come to ski or snowboard with your classmates and make it a memorable day on the hills to make the most of our beautiful Canadian winter.

A citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, Joseph Kunkel is a community designer and educator, focused on sustainable development practices for Indigenous communities. As a Principal at MASS Design Group, Joseph directs the Sustainable Native Communities Design Lab in O’ghe P’oghe (Santa Fe, New Mexico). 

Stephanie is a senior researcher at the Life Cycle Lab at the University of Washington. Her work investigates the interaction between the natural and constructed environment, including embodied carbon, life cycle assessment (LCA), urban ecology, landscape performance and supply chains and toxicity of building materials. Combining a background in environmental science and architectural design, she builds bridges between research and practice, bringing data-driven analysis and topical research to complex design problems.

Beyond the Build podcast hosts a special live taping of an episode profiling several Waterloo Architecture alumni in the Cummings Lecture Theatre on March 26, 2025.